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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: what do _you_ think of sf? -- plug for IASFM
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>	Side note: Any other recommendations on books that deal with
>political problems in a readable way?

>					-- Dave Taylor

I liked the classic "We" also, but I think it suffers (philosophically)
from the same simplistic notions of science that Vonnegut's books that
deal with this subject do.  What I mean is that they blame science,
rather than those who misuse it or those who falsely claim to be using it.

One book in the negative utopia genre that I like a lot is "Anthem" by
Rand.  It is very different from her other books in style (as well as
length).

Also, I read somewhere in a review that H. G. Well's wrote an excellent
novel in this genre, but I don't remember the title.

						Mike Sykora