алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agothe future capitalists will take from us if we let them continue destroying our planetlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1840arrow-down1139cross-posted to: solarpunk@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1701arrow-down1imagethe future capitalists will take from us if we let them continue destroying our planetlemmy.dbzer0.comалсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square84fedilinkcross-posted to: solarpunk@slrpnk.net
minus-squarethawed_caveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·1 year agoThere has to be one, but i think most sci-fi authors are left-leaning so their utopias and dystopias both reflect that.
minus-squarewinterayars@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoI think you’re, uh, pretty super wrong about sci-fi authors being leftists. Maybe the modern ones, but historically they’ve been pretty right wing.
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYou’ve got a point there… Robert Heinlein’s books were so fashy that Verhoeven decided the only way Starship Troopers could be turned into a film was if it was done as satire.
There has to be one, but i think most sci-fi authors are left-leaning so their utopias and dystopias both reflect that.
I think you’re, uh, pretty super wrong about sci-fi authors being leftists. Maybe the modern ones, but historically they’ve been pretty right wing.
You’ve got a point there… Robert Heinlein’s books were so fashy that Verhoeven decided the only way Starship Troopers could be turned into a film was if it was done as satire.