Why can't conservatives write space adventure?

[JakeWIlls92]

All of the big space opera writers today are liberal! Why can't conservatives write space opera? It was President Eisenhower, a Republican that authorized the creation of NASA! JFK, the man who brought America the moon would be considered conservative today!



Ann Leckie on Twitter

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James S.A. Corey on Twitter

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John Scalzi on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/bestselling-scifi-author-john-scalzi-is-beginning-a-bra-1778403573

The most popular and loved space video game with the best sci fi universe is about an American space soldier of the future with a cool spaceship who unites the galaxy against an ancient unstoppable threat!



I bet a conservative person could write something like that!

Conservatives! Show us you are excited for the future! Show us that you value science and technology!

 

[miketx]

How about we just show you the door?

 

[JakeWIlls92]

How about we just show you the door?

lol triggered?

 

[miketx]

As stated on many occasions you regressive fools are not capable of triggering me for any reason. You are simply a tool.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Because their goal is do something similar to the amish!

They want to go backwards and make America a religious fascist state that wouldn't allow for such things as space travel.

 

[DOTR]

The answer is very very simple.

Hugo awards see off rightwing protests to celebrate diverse authors

Several years back conservatives were expelled from The World Science Fiction Society and Science Fiction Writers of America. They were purged from participation in Hugo and Nebula awards. Science fiction today has political officers checking each story, like the Soviets, for correct thinking on feminism, socialism and diversity. The writing doesn't matter until it has proven itself as a tool to advance Marxism.
You have no way of knowing what good writers write now and your question should be directed at Tor Publishing.

 

[miketx]

Because their goal is do something similar to the amish!

They want to go backwards and make America a religious fascist state that wouldn't allow for such things as space travel.

If that's true, liar, then why don't all of us live like the Amish today? lol! You fools lies are so easy to unravel.

 

[Lysistrata]

All of the big space opera writers today are liberal! Why can't conservatives write space opera? It was President Eisenhower, a Republican that authorized the creation of NASA! JFK, the man who brought America the moon would be considered conservative today!



Ann Leckie on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/ancillary-justice-is-the-mind-blowing-space-opera-youv-1430076479

James S.A. Corey on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/abaddons-gate-is-literary-space-opera-at-its-absolute-511125015

John Scalzi on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/bestselling-scifi-author-john-scalzi-is-beginning-a-bra-1778403573

The most popular and loved space video game with the best sci fi universe is about an American space soldier of the future with a cool spaceship who unites the galaxy against an ancient unstoppable threat!



I bet a conservative person could write something like that!

Conservatives! Show us you are excited for the future! Show us that you value science and technology!

Good question. I don't know too much about sci-fi, just some Heinlein and that stuff. But I've noted the lack of creative production from the "conservative" camp. I think that this is based on an absolute fear of the human imagination that seems to be a staple in conservative culture. This goes hand-in-hand with the anti-intellectualism that seems endemic in this culture. To produce any creative work, a person needs to allow his/her mind to wander without limitation, to consider the possibilities, to pick up little snippets of information and ideas that might form the basis of a project. The "conservative" community has not produced much to throw into the U.S. cultural stew pot. Novels, short stories, songs, films, musical compositions, dance, even, always are the produce of somebody closing his or her eyes and dreaming.
I love watching the Kennedy Center Honors from the Obama years. Assemblies of achievers in their chosen fields. I wonder why the "conservative" communities are not generating this sort of talent and bringing it forward.

 

[JakeWIlls92]

Because their goal is do something similar to the amish!

They want to go backwards and make America a religious fascist state that wouldn't allow for such things as space travel.

Wouldn't a spaceship like this be as American as apple pie?

 

[fncceo]

Firefly ...

The most Libertarian show ever.

 

[Vastator]

All of the big space opera writers today are liberal! Why can't conservatives write space opera? today!



Ann Leckie on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/ancillary-justice-is-the-mind-blowing-space-opera-youv-1430076479

James S.A. Corey on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/abaddons-gate-is-literary-space-opera-at-its-absolute-511125015

John Scalzi on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/bestselling-scifi-author-john-scalzi-is-beginning-a-bra-1778403573

The most popular and loved space video game with the best sci fi universe is about an American space soldier of the future with a cool spaceship who unites the galaxy against an ancient unstoppable threat!



I bet a conservative person could write something like that!

Conservatives! Show us you are excited for the future! Show us that you value science and technology!

Good question. I don't know too much about sci-fi, just some Heinlein and that stuff. But I've noted the lack of creative production from the "conservative" camp. I think that this is based on an absolute fear of the human imagination that seems to be a staple in conservative culture

What you have actually noted is the lack of publishing; not the lack of creative writing. When major publishers don't publish a persons writings; you don't get to read them. Even if they were published it is unlikely that you would enjoy reading them, as displayed by the rest of your statement. Such writings would not stroke your political proclivities, and as such it is unlikely that you find yourself able to be immersed in such writings.

 

[Mr Natural]

They get all their fiction (science and otherwise) from their Big Book of Myths and Fables.

 

[fncceo]

‘Starship Troopers’, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’, ‘Janissaries’...

Just a few of many very conservative sci fiction masterpieces.

 

[Moonglow]

All of the big space opera writers today are liberal! Why can't conservatives write space opera? It was President Eisenhower, a Republican that authorized the creation of NASA! JFK, the man who brought America the moon would be considered conservative today!



Ann Leckie on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/ancillary-justice-is-the-mind-blowing-space-opera-youv-1430076479

James S.A. Corey on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/abaddons-gate-is-literary-space-opera-at-its-absolute-511125015

John Scalzi on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/bestselling-scifi-author-john-scalzi-is-beginning-a-bra-1778403573

The most popular and loved space video game with the best sci fi universe is about an American space soldier of the future with a cool spaceship who unites the galaxy against an ancient unstoppable threat!



I bet a conservative person could write something like that!

Conservatives! Show us you are excited for the future! Show us that you value science and technology!

They did, it's called the Bible, full of aliens and foreign creatures not of this world...

 

[Moonglow]

Buy now!!

 

[Lysistrata]

Because their goal is do something similar to the amish!

They want to go backwards and make America a religious fascist state that wouldn't allow for such things as space travel.

Wouldn't a spaceship like this be as American as apple pie?

Where are the horses?

 

[Moonglow]

‘Starship Troopers’, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’, ‘Janissaries’...

Just a few of many very conservative sci fiction masterpieces.

But they showed boobies, that's rather liberal...

 

[fncceo]

‘Starship Troopers’, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’, ‘Janissaries’...

Just a few of many very conservative sci fiction masterpieces.

But they showed boobies, that's rather liberal...

They’re books ... what you see is in your imagination.

 

[Moonglow]

‘Starship Troopers’, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’, ‘Janissaries’...

Just a few of many very conservative sci fiction masterpieces.

But they showed boobies, that's rather liberal...

They’re books ... what you see is in your imagination.

Books have pictures, if not they aren't worth having..

 

[DOTR]

All of the big space opera writers today are liberal! Why can't conservatives write space opera? It was President Eisenhower, a Republican that authorized the creation of NASA! JFK, the man who brought America the moon would be considered conservative today!



Ann Leckie on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/ancillary-justice-is-the-mind-blowing-space-opera-youv-1430076479

James S.A. Corey on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/abaddons-gate-is-literary-space-opera-at-its-absolute-511125015

John Scalzi on Twitter

https://io9.gizmodo.com/bestselling-scifi-author-john-scalzi-is-beginning-a-bra-1778403573

The most popular and loved space video game with the best sci fi universe is about an American space soldier of the future with a cool spaceship who unites the galaxy against an ancient unstoppable threat!



I bet a conservative person could write something like that!

Conservatives! Show us you are excited for the future! Show us that you value science and technology!

Good question. I don't know too much about sci-fi, just some Heinlein and that stuff. But I've noted the lack of creative production from the "conservative" camp. I think that this is based on an absolute fear of the human imagination that seems to be a staple in conservative culture. This goes hand-in-hand with the anti-intellectualism that seems endemic in this culture. To produce any creative work, a person needs to allow his/her mind to wander without limitation, to consider the possibilities, to pick up little snippets of information and ideas that might form the basis of a project. The "conservative" community has not produced much to throw into the U.S. cultural stew pot. Novels, short stories, songs, films, musical compositions, dance, even, always are the produce of somebody closing his or her eyes and dreaming.
I love watching the Kennedy Center Honors from the Obama years. Assemblies of achievers in their chosen fields. I wonder why the "conservative" communities are not generating this sort of talent and bringing it forward.

Try Larry Niven bucko. Robert Heinlein. Orson Scott Card.