I want to read some sci-fi. Any good socialist or specifically marxist science fiction authors out there?

I want to read some sci-fi. Any good socialist or specifically marxist science fiction authors out there?

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Ursula Le Guin and Mieville are the obvious ones

Bookchin

Even though they arent socialist books id still recommend William Gibson and Alastair Reynolds Blue Rembered Earth, they are both about different types of ultra-capitalism

Stirner inspired main char in a Sci-Fi Dystopian world.

Sci-fi often relies upon capitalism as a point of conflict for the sake of the plot.

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I'm obscure af.

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I'm reading it rn and I can confirm that Jünger understands Stirner deeply but it's also in a way a "criticism" to "anarchy"(?notsure?) because Jünger didn't got anarchy quite well imo or maybe it's me who doesn't gets it. I'm aware that some anarchists are/can be spooked individuals but isn't Jünger conception of the anarch also a spook? as a perfect ideal? who knows. I'll know when I finish.

But I love the fact that I'm reading an author that went from a Nazi to Nazbol to an Anarch (anarchist in mind). I can relate to that since I was, like a lot of users here a retarded Holla Forumstard at some point in my life, 4 years ago their retarded ass ideology owned my mind. Then I grew the fuck up, started reading books & abandoned the spooks.

Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower

A lot of Phillip K. Dick's stories could be thought of in the context of socialism. Especially alienation due to industrialization.

Max Barry

Read the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

smh

Try some Iain M. Banks. I would post some, but can't upload mobi or epub.

Start with Player of Games, OP.

James P. Hogan's Voyage from Yesteryear is a great polemic on LibSoc with a heavy FALC angle, and also an excellent novel.

Eric Frank Russel's WASP is one of the best stories about being a terrorist I've read. Also, his anthology The Great Explosion was a direct inspiration for Voyage from Yesteryear.

Keith Laumer's Retief stories were parodies of Cold War-era imperialism written by a former American State Department staffer.


IdPol trash


Bretty gud, but keep in mind it veers into self-parody, a bit like Neal Stephenson's early stuff.


Bleh, some neat ideas, but the characters are ripped out of a soap opera.


I've only read a couple of his works (Martian Time-Slip & The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch), but he comes across as annoyingly preachy.

Feels too masturbatory too often, also his grasp on science is feather-light.

Marx


Just change the extension to PDF and the board will let you upload it.

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Bogdanov's Red Star and Engineer Menni

Daemon by Daniel Suarez and foundation by isaac Asimov come to mind.

Ursula K Le Guin's Hainish Cycle is pretty inspired by anarchism and Bookchin specifically. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is also inspired by Bookchin.

Asimov's pshychohistory is essentially historical materialism made hard science.

Well, if you're going to do that, you might as well go full-on Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire-allegory while you're at it.

Asimov's Foundation is literally an allegory for the rise and fall of the Roman empire!


Did I did it right, senpai?

Mieville's Bas Lag trilogy is GOTYAYEY. Good writing, lefty politics, wild ideas by the metric ton. My only complaints are the fucking massive teasehanger at the end of the second one, and how the third one timeskipped what arguably was the most interesting part of the plot.

Star Trek

HG Wells's "The Time Machine". It's all an allegory to class warfare and its effects on man.

Good luck finding your desired material, Philip K Dick is a personal favorite, in his short stories he often portrayed entire territories that get turned to slag.
I think however there should be a new genre to emerge called Science-fRiction which is about how nothing can get done at all in the field of technology outside of the military postindustrial complex; plus an honest take at what life is going to be like in the year 20XX.

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are pretty good. Their most well-known work is probably Roadside Picnic, because of the Stalker game. It isn't set in commieland though.
One I particularly liked is Hard to Be a God. It's part of the Noon series, in which the Earth is communist. In that one they send people to a feudal world (populated with humans, because fuck you) to observe and try to help them escape from being complete retards but it's damn near impossible.

That one has vidya too.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Any reading Wells works should also check out Tono Bungay.

I meant Kim Stanley Robinson.