Monday, April 28, 2014

The new Inquisitors …

… Politics don't belong in science fiction: Column.

The ins and outs of politics and science fiction fandom are inside baseball to most people, though lately they've been juicier than usual. But unfortunately, this sort of thing is symptomatic of what's going on in a lot of places these days. Purging the heretics, usually but not always from the left, has become a popular game in a lot of institutions. It just seems worse in science fiction because SF was traditionally open and optimistic about the future, two things that purging the heretics doesn't go with very well.

1 comment:

  1. It seems to be that science fiction has always been political.

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