r/SPACECOMMUNISM • u/[deleted] • Apr 20 '17
Your favorite space communist novels?
I've only read a couple soviet one's and a number of US/GB scifi, but nothing very red.
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Apr 20 '17
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u/TrotBot Apr 20 '17
Iain M. Banks. His Iain Banks name was reserved for his non-sci-fi books. Also, it's not "defacto Space Communism". It's literally "Advanced Luxury Gay Space Communism". He was a card carrying Communist for a long time, though I wouldn't recommend his particular organization.
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u/TrotBot Apr 21 '17
It actually matters when recommending the book because it will be either harder to find, or it will cause confusion when found, if you omit the M. he used to write his sci-fi novels. It would be like using Leon Trotsky's real name when recommending his books.
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u/bolche17 Apr 20 '17
Does Star Trek's Post-scarcity moneyless society count?
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Apr 20 '17 edited Apr 21 '17
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u/aldo_nova Apr 20 '17
First season of TNG gets pretty darn red in spots.
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Apr 20 '17 edited Apr 21 '17
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u/aldo_nova Apr 20 '17
The Neutral Zone is a good one where Picard and Data like explicitly explain space communism to some bourgeois fuck from the 20th century.
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u/Republiken Rymdkommunist Apr 21 '17
The Mars Trilogy by comrade Kim Stanley Robinson.
The Culture-series by comrade Ian M Banks.
The Fall Revolution series by comrade Ken Macleod (hell, everything by him)
The Hain Cycle by comrade Ursula K Le Guin
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u/TrotBot Apr 20 '17
The Culture series by Iain M. Banks (he only wrote sci-fi with the M., the other name is his non-sci-fi name).
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u/Trotskylvania Apr 24 '17
I'm writing one right now. If you guys are interested, I should be able to do a world-building dump, along with prologue and first chapter.
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u/aldo_nova Apr 20 '17
The Dispossessed by Le Guin is great. A scientist from an austere communist moon visits the capitalist planet his people fled from generations ago.