Re: Gingrich, Moynihan step down

tsoon (tsoon@mail.usyd.edu.au)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:37:59 +1100

>I'd say that sf and libertarianism are extensionally equivalent in a few
>(mostly trivial) ways, but that in general they don't have all that much to
>say about one another, ie they're mostly unrelated.

Compared to other lit. genres there seems to be a disproportionate no of sci fi writers with libertarian leanings.
There's Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Robert Heinlein, Gregory Benford, David Brin (the last 2 have been associated with Reason mag), L Neil Smith, Robert Anton Wilson, Victor Koman ...

Regards
Jason Soon