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Red Library: Science Fiction

By: Owen Hatherley

There has always been an affinity between socialism and science fiction, a genre that makes clear it is still possible to imagine new societies — however much our miserable politics might claim otherwise.

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As socialists, our concern is with the future — so there has always been an affinity between socialism and science fiction. In the naively optimistic movement of the early twentieth century, the two were particularly closely linked — especially in Britain, with figures like H. G. Wells, and Russia, with the likes of Aleksandr Bogdanov — and the connection has […]

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As socialists, our concern is with the future — so there has always been an affinity between socialism and science fiction. In the naively optimistic movement of the early twentieth century, the two were particularly closely linked — especially in Britain, with figures like H. G. Wells, and Russia, with the likes of Aleksandr Bogdanov — and the connection has […]

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As socialists, our concern is with the future — so there has always been an affinity between socialism and science fiction. In the naively optimistic movement of the early twentieth century, the two were particularly closely linked — especially in Britain, with figures like H. G. Wells, and Russia, with the likes of Aleksandr Bogdanov — and the connection has […]

As socialists, our concern is with the future — so there has always been an affinity between socialism and science fiction. In the naively optimistic movement of the early twentieth century, the two were particularly closely linked — especially in Britain, with figures like H. G. Wells, and Russia, with the likes of Aleksandr Bogdanov — and the connection has […]

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