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[โ€“] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] masquenox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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.