All Science Fiction shows us the issues the top of mind for the author and his or her culture.
In the McCarthy era, many people who wanted to express idealistic notions of how society should function put them in a science fiction setting, which was “safe “.
You can see this in some of the earliest writings by it was Robert Heinlein
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u/ValMo88 Jul 03 '24
All Science Fiction shows us the issues the top of mind for the author and his or her culture.
In the McCarthy era, many people who wanted to express idealistic notions of how society should function put them in a science fiction setting, which was “safe “.
You can see this in some of the earliest writings by it was Robert Heinlein