The Best Political Science Fiction [View All]

Yeah, I *know* 90% of science/speculative fiction is crap (Sturgeon's Law), but the
good stuff hits home years or even decades later and is suprisingly relevant even as I
speak. I'll give examples that bear on recent headlines:

Frank Herbert_ The Dragon In The Sea, AKA Under Pressure. In an energy-starved economy,
governments use tanker submarines to steal oil from other nations' territory.


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Joe Haldeman_ The Forever War. An endless, pointless war against a culture that didn't
actually attack us. Sound familiar? Also:

Forever Peace_ Follows a draftee forced to telecommute to the war zone.


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The movie_The Andromeda Strain. A government lab nearly destroys life on Earth thanks
to bad design and organizational fuckups. Think Big Dig and/or I35W bridge.

Then of course, there's the classic The Space Merchants_Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
where advertising agencies run society.

There are plenty of others, add the ones that you know!