Commie Sci-Fi

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That video reminds me...
I almost never read fiction. I will be honest, I tend to think of fiction as a bourgeois waste of time (even though I watch tons of sci-fi and fiction television- haha). Here is a list of fantasy & sci-fi that I WOULD read:
Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read

Iain M. Banks -- Use of Weapons (1990)

Edward Bellamy -- Looking Backward, 2000 - 1887 (1888)

Alexander Bogdanov -- The Red Star: A Utopia (1908; trans. 1984)

Emma Bull & Steven Brust -- Freedom & Necessity (1997)

Mikhail Bulgakov -- The Master & Margarita (1938; trans. 1967)

Katherine Burdekin (aka "Murray Constantine") -- Swastika Night (1937)

Octavia Butler -- Survivor (1978)

Julio Cortázar -- "House Taken Over" (1963?)

Philip K. Dick -- A Scanner Darkly (1977)

Thomas Disch -- The Priest (1994)

Gordon Eklund -- All Times Possible (1974)

Max Ernst -- Une Semaine de Bonte (1934)

Claude Farrere -- Useless Hands (1920; trans. 1926)

Anatole France -- The White Stone (1905; trans. 1910)

Jane Gaskell -- Strange Evil (1957)

Mary Gentle -- Rats and Gargoyles (1990)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)

The Dream Years -- Lisa Goldstein (1985)

Stefan Grabinski -- The Dark Domain (1918-22; trans. and collected 1993)

George Griffith -- The Angel of Revolution (1893)

Emile Habiby -- The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist (1974; trans. 1982)

M. John Harrison -- Viriconium Nights (1984)

Ursula K. Le Guin -- The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)

Jack London -- The Iron Heel (1907)

Ken MacLeod -- The Star Fraction (1996)

Gregory Maguire -- Wicked (1995)

J. Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) -- Gay Hunter (1934, reissued 1989)

Michael Moorcock -- Hawkmoon (1967-77, reprinted in one edition 1992)

William Morris -- News From Nowhere (1888)

Toni Morrison -- Beloved (1987)

Mervyn Peake -- The Gormenghast Trilogy (1946-59)

Marge Piercy -- Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)

Philip Pullman -- Northern Lights (1995)

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged (1957)
(Know your enemy. This panoply of portentous Nietzcheanism lite has had a huge influence on American SF. Rand was an obsessive "objectivist" (libertarian pro-capitalist individualist) whose hatred of socialism and any form of "collectivism" is visible in this important an influential -- though vile and ponderous -- novel.)

Mack Reynolds -- Lagrange Five (1979)

Keith Roberts -- Pavane (1968)

Kim Stanley Robinson -- The Mars Trilogy (1992-96)

Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)

Lucius Shepard -- Life During Wartime (1987)

Norman Spinrad -- The Iron Dream (1972)

Eugene Sue -- The Wandering Jew (1845)

Michael Swanwick -- The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)

Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Alexei Tolstoy -- Aelita (1922; trans. 1957)

Ian Watson -- Slow Birds (1985)

H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)

E. L. White -- "Lukundoo" (1927)

Oscar Wilde -- The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888)

Gene Wolfe -- The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972)

Evgeny Zamyatin -- We (1920; trans. 1924)


(thanx Frank)