The book’s been criticized (with some justification) for being proto-Stalinist, but overall it’s been maligned. This Bolshevik SF sends a revolutionary to socialist Mars. Deals very well with the confusion of the “modern” (19th Century) protagonist in a world he hasn’t helped create (see Bogdanov).Īlexander Bogdanov-The Red Star: A Utopia (1908 trans. The Culture are “goodies” in narrative and political terms, but here issues of cross-cultural guilt and manipulation complicate the story from being a simplistic utopia.Įdward Bellamy-Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (1888)Ī hugely influential, rather bureaucratic egalitarian/naïve communist utopia. Socialist SF discussing a post-scarcity society. I change my own mind hour to hour on this anyway. Of course, other works-by the same or other writers-could have been chosen: disagreement and alternative suggestions are welcomed. Those below are chosen not just because of their quality-which though mostly good, is variable-but because the politics they embed (deliberately or not) are of particular interest to socialists. There are huge numbers of superb works not on the list. This is not a list of the “best” fantasy or SF.
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