1. There is something about the political controversy over the Hugo Awards that is confusing me. #SadPuppies
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6. Gene Wolfe, RA Lafferty, Jack Vance and Robert Silverberg are all right wing, yet they all write (or wrote) s.f. with literary ambitions.
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@HeerJeet Heinlein was ALL ABOUT this. "Green Hills Of Earth" was published in Saturday Evening Post.
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@HeerJeet Don't forget one of the very founders of sci-fi, the socialist H.G. Wells. (And yes, it's all throughout the work itself.) -
@HeerJeet Wells was a Labour candidate twice, standing symbolically in a safe Conservative seat. (He came in third behind the Liberals.)
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@HeerJeet There has been a strong (not absolute) correlation between artistic excellence and progressive thought for 200 years or soThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet 1 Robert Heinlein seems to have evolved from traditional liberal to Libertarian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet While George Orwell personally a Lefty, most famous works 1984, Animal Farm right-of-center anti-Communist allegories. -
@Truth_Quest30 I think that's a mistaken characterization of those books. They came out of Orwell's stance as anti-communist leftist. - Show replies
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