How Science Fiction Made Me Liberal
More than anything, the genre challenges us to imagine beyond the status quo
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10 min readJul 1, 2019
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Some of the first science fiction books I loved were in a YA series called The Tripods Trilogy, by John Christopher, about a future ruled by a race of invading aliens called “the masters” who rove around the country in Wellsean tripods. Human civilization is kept at a medieval…