Is Science Fiction Getting More Conservative?

Pajamas Media ^ | January 25, 2011 | Patrick Richardson

[GraceG]

I always like Heinlien growing up. He took more of a “Classical Liberal” view in that he was more Libertarian.

The Man who sold the moon :)

I also liked Ben Bova and Issac Asimov.

[Mr. Jeeves]

For a while, SF writers were drinking deeply of the Global Warming Kool-Aid. Maybe they are taking more interest in basing stories in genuine science, now. :)

[Vaquero]

Heinlein was libertarian not liberal

my tagline says it all...

[Vaquero]

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[JDW11235]

I’ve read quite a bit of Science fiction, and most authors have never seemed conservative in the least to me. Not that they necessarilly were overtly liberal, but collectivism and such were almost always promoted and individualism unimportant. To say the least.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I’ve read some of Pournelle’s collaborations with Larry Niven. Based on those, I’d say he leans right...

Funny you mention Heinlein’s libertarian leanings. My wife is a modern “liberal” who owns almost everything he ever wrote.

[PzLdr]

Heinlein was a Naval Academy graduate.

[TomGuy]

SyFy is still making new destruction movies; destruction, of course, caused by global warming.

[dangerdoc]

It’s hard to write an interesting story about a collective.

The genre itself has to deal with individuals making choices and living with the consequences, which will to some extent causes stories to drift towards conservatism, even if they wouldn’t admit it.

[PetroniusMaximus]

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[RabidBartender]

I’ve found BBC seems to have more science fiction than Scyfy

[TomGuy]

most authors have never seemed conservative in the least to me.

Common theme is worldwide threat and, of course, missiles from Russia, China and the USofA to defeat the threat.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Joe 6-pack]

Michael Crichton's State of Fear should be on every conservative's reading list, if for no other reason than the citations and foot notes.

[dangerdoc]

SyFi has little to do with SciFi, sigh.

[Vaquero]

For a while, SF writers were drinking deeply of the Global Warming Kool-Aid. Maybe they are taking more interest in basing stories in genuine science, now. :)

you have to read ‘State of Fear’, but Michael Crichton(author of Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain) if you want to read a conservative tome by a Scifi writer.

( this is more of present day science fiction based on the global warming fraud.)

[TomGuy]

Even some of the other cable channels have sci-fi than SyFy.

SyFy is adding more reality-type stuff. They have lost focus. They recently were bragging that their wrestling program had attained its highest viewership.

[Frantzie]

Who has time to read sci fi? Little kids? NASA deals in fantasy and fiction by pimping global warming.

[GraceG]

[ Heinlein was libertarian not liberal

my tagline says it all... ]

That is why i referenced as “Classical Liberal” not the usurptation of the word Liberal by the Progressives. What the word Liberal meant to someone living over 100 years ago.