“How to Make a Social Justice Warrior” by William Shetterly - a Book Review

Hubpages ^ | 02/19/15 | Tamara Wilhite

[tbw2]

The authoritarian left, social justice warriors, have been rising for years. The Sad Puppies / Hugo Slate controversy for the past few years is also the culmination of over a decade of politics infecting science fiction. William Shetterley is unique as a communist science fiction author who criticizes SJWs from the left and the hypocritical lack of diversity by social justice warriors, such as ignoring a Cherokee scifi/alt-history author because he's conservative or punishing a female military history author because she's critical of Islam.

[tbw2]

“How to Make a Social Justice Warrior” by William Shetterly - a Book Review http://hubpages.com/literature/Review-of-the-eBook-How-to-Make-a-Social-Justice-Warrior-by-William-Shetterly

[Gen.Blather]

I checked out several new science fiction authors a while back and was gagged by the liberal politics. Several stories started something along the lines, “Two decades after Global Warming destroyed civilization...” Maybe the story was good. I’ll never know because if they start out on some liberal world view I won’t make it to the end of that sentence.

[reformedliberal]

Same for me. And yet, when someone writes sci-fi or dystopian fiction from the POV of the right, there are automatically scores of negative reviews saying it was a good story, but the author’s political views spoiled it for the reviewer.

[Gen.Blather]

“Same for me. And yet, when someone writes sci-fi or dystopian fiction from the POV of the right, there are automatically scores of negative reviews saying it was a good story, but the author’s political views spoiled it for the reviewer.”

I have gotten some of those reviews on my novels.

https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cp_27%3ABern%20Pearson

[sport]

I had rather unmake them. How to make them does not interest me.

[Rurudyne]

Free “science fiction”, um ... fan fictions really. No liberal bias anywhere to be seen.

... set long before the cartoons ...

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/transformers-genesis.157453/

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/transformers-forgotten-wars.157685/

... set after ...

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/the-hall-of-dead-gods.158130/

[AnonymousConservative]

For those who haven't seen it, Castalia House Publishing was created by Conservative Sci-Fi Author Vox Day specifically to infuse the genre with Sci-Fi/Fantasy with a conservative perspective. They turn out some pretty good stuff like the old days, and given how bad the leftist stuff gets, will eventually take over Sci-Fi entirely.

[tbw2]

Scott Adams’ deprogramming of anti-Trumper’s blog post was pretty good along those lines.

[mumblypeg]

While they might not qualify as science fiction per se, since they are mostly set in the present, rather than the future, the distopian novels of Dean Koontz are a guilty pleasure for me.
Although he never says so overtly, readers who are aware that he is Catholic will notice the message laid between the lines.
He plays heavily on themes of free will, and good vs evil.
The protagonist always has the option of walking away and saving himself, but is always compelled by a power greater than himself to risk thankless martyrdom for the sake of others.