I'm a socialist but I don't read science fiction unless it's cleverly disguised as something else. When I was young all the guys I knew read sci-fi. I'm not sure what the girls read, maybe nothing. I liked romance or stories of people who escaped their working class roots and began angst ridden lives in big cities where they met mentors and stuff.
"This is not a list of the best fantasy or SF. There are huge numbers of superb works not on the list. Those below are chosen not just because of their quality which though mostly good, is variable but because the politics they embed (deliberately or not) are of particular interest to socialists. Of course, other works by the same or other writers could have been chosen: disagreement and alternative suggestions are welcomed. I change my own mind hour to hour on this anyway."
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