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.
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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.
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.