How Science Fiction Made Me Liberal
More than anything, the genre challenges us to imagine beyond the status quo
Published in
10 min readJul 1, 2019
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…