An old Reddit post recommended the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson so I’m giving that a shot and I figured I’d ask c/Books if you had any suggestions.
An old Reddit post recommended the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson so I’m giving that a shot and I figured I’d ask c/Books if you had any suggestions.
I jumped in to recommend the Mars trilogy, but realise you already mentioned that lol.
Anything by LeGuin is great. The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed are fantastic starting points, the latter being my favourite of hers.
I also find a lot of value in the discussions of power, class struggle and ecology in Herbert's Dune, but that is not overly 'Marxist'. Still great though.
It's been a few years since I read it, but I always saw Asimov's Foundation series as a thought experiment on historical materialism if it was an actual - tangible - science that guided social decisions. Might be off on that though, haven't read it since I was my teens/early 20s. Still, a great series and worth reading!
Im sure someone more well versed in sci fi could offer some more diverse and interesting suggestions, there are all pretty standard suggestions. Still, all great though and I would highly recommend them.
Asimov has denied that Seldon was based on Marx, but there's definitely a similarity between historical materialism and psychohistory
Came here to recommend Le Guin