My husband just defined my favorite genre as "political science fiction" and that's what I'll be calling it from now on
Recs time!
The Expanse fits this perfectly!
how serious/directly political does something have to be? like, THE CULTURE series? NEUROMANCER? David Weber's stupidly elaborate monarchical space commonwealths? I love the genre idea because it seems basically a way to label what I've been into recently...
So...Star Trek?
I think The Expanse fits into this. The alien stuff is just stirring the pot for the existing conflicts between Earth, Mars, and Belters
Le Guin's The Dispossessed is one gateway drug
The four tRump yrs were "Political Horror" 😱
I’m impressed you can read anything connected to politics in free time. I need books and things as far as I can get.
The conversation started because of this new radio play set in 2039 describing what happened after Trump won the 2024 election.