50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read

March 2024 Forums Off topic 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read

Viewing 5 posts - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #81267
    jondwhite
    Participant
    #88238
    imposs1904
    Participant

     From that list I’d recommend Bulgakov and Zamyatin. I hated Jack London’s Iron Heel when I read it many, many years ago but it was just after I’d read Robert Barltrop’s biography of London, and no doubt my opinion was coloured by Barltrop disclosure that London was a racist.I’ll probably read it again one of these days.

    #88239
    Mike Foster
    Participant

    There are some works I’d include on the list, such as E M Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ and John Christopher’s ‘Tripods’ quadrilogy. And if they qualify as sci-fi (which they probably don’t, although they have some sci-fi elements), Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ and Anna Bowman Dodd’s ‘ The Republic of the Future’.

    #88240
    ALB
    Keymaster

    I’ve read only 7 of them (Bellamy, Anatole France, Ursula LeGuin, Jack London, William Morris, Marge Piercy, Oscar Wilde). Does this score of 14% mean I’m a philistine?

    #88241
    jondwhite
    Participant

    I don’t know if I’ve posted this before, but this is a good listenCU 2011: Marxism and other worlds

Viewing 5 posts - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.