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Friday, May 16, 2008 --- 69 days ago http://io9.com/391320/are-conservatives-better-at-creating-futuristic-stories
 During a recent campaign appearance, Republican presidential candidate John McCain revealed his science fictional side: He gave an entire speech where he pretended the year was 2012 and he'd already been president for four years. Apparently, he'd been getting a lot of things done, like fixing the environment and lowering taxes. More importantly, though, he was participating in a U.S. conservative tradition. He was spinning tales of a future where conservative forces triumph, roll back progressive culture, and make the world a better place. Like conservative congressman Newt Gingrich, who published an alternative history novel , McCain was trying to seduce U.S. voters with his vision of another world. Given the political climate in the U.S. right now, it would seem that conservative science fiction is pretty compelling indeed. Let's take a look at a few of the greatest hits of right-wing scifi from the USA.
No conservative scifi geek's bookshelf would be complete without Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged , a novel about a dystopian future America full of nasty anti-capitalists who want to feed the poor and crush innovation. Slowly, our industrial capitalist main character realizes that other "atlases" of industry — the rich elites whose businesses make the world go round — are disappearing. It all has to do with this giant motor that turns "atmospheric static electricity" into "kinetic energy." And a secret underground world w ... |
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