3 Articles by:
Nick Hubble
Nick Hubble is a professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University. Nick's latest work, Growing Old with the Welfare State, is published by Bloomsbury.
The Radical Utopias of Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin, born on this day in 1929, used science fiction to explore the failures of capitalist society – and the alternative worlds we could build in its place.
How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism
From William Morris to Ursula K. Le Guin and Iain M. Banks, science fiction has provided an outlet for socialist thinkers – offering a break from a bleak political reality and allowing them to imagine a vastly different world.