Re: [Marxism] Fantasy and SF for socialists.

[Einde O'Callaghan <eindeoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Fredman wrote:
<snip>
> 
> Something definitely meant to be a dystopia is Margaret Attwood's A
> Handmaid's Tale, about the horrific oppression of women after a military
> coup in the US led by a sort of Christian fascist movement (there's a decent
> movie of it too). Surprisingly not on this list, though it seems some SF
> fans don't like it when serious literary types go slumming in speculative
> fiction land. 
> 
I don't think the author of this list, China Mieville, can be accused of 
that attitude - after all, one of the authors listed is Iain M. Banks, 
who also write "serious" literary fiction under the name Iain Banks - 
and Mervyn Peake is considered to be "serious" literary fiction too.

> Anything by William Gibson is interesting, especially his evocation of urban
> landscapes, which he's said are influenced by Mike Davis - though maybe in
> the superficial way some postmodernists are influenced by Gramsci.
> 
I particularly liked his joint alternative history book with Bruce 
Stirling, "The Difference Engine" - Marx as leader of the new York 
commune and Lord Engels in the House of Lords - and that's just the 
background!

Einde O'Callaghan

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