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Ken MacLeod is/was a trotskyist of sorts. On Apr 14, 2012 10:52 AM, "Sun Eagle" <suneagl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > > > > > ________________________________ > Thanks. Also worth mentioning are the late Octavia Butler (the > change-shifter series, esp. WILDSEED) and Samuel Delaney, for > African-American science fiction is a sub-genre of its own. BTW, some > astute readers have noted that Delaney's mammoth second novel, DHALGREN, > bears an uncanny resemblence to Bowie's song "Diamong Dogs"---the Manhattan > Chase Bank, the character who dresses like a priest to escape down an > elevator shaft, packs of wild dogs roaming through a city that may not > exist, etc. Since the novel came out before the album, and Bowie is an > admitted sci-fi fan, you have to figure plagiarism on some level. > > Of interest to list members may be China's recommendations for 50 Sci-Fi & > Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read, to be found here among other > places: > > > http://theweeklyansible.tumblr.com/post/20777236577/50-sci-fi-fantasy-works-every-socialist-should-read > > It's worth noting that several SF/F authors of note have been committed > leftists, if not explicitly Marxists. H.G. Wells was a Fabian; Kim Stanley > Robinson is a leftist, and both Ursula Le Guin and Michael Moorcock > identify as anarchists. > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/dave.xx%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
