Right wingers seem to like Dune but scifi isn’t their domain I think. Unless you count novels like the Probability Broach.
Conservatives are into fantasy. Tolkien is their guy.
They also generally have an incredibly shallow knowledge of and grasp on Tolkien’s works and either base everything off the movies cause they ain’t read the books or project a lot of stuff that they want into it and ignore that reading the hard to read stuff will tell you they’re wrong. I wish Tolkien were still around cause he’d be an absolutely vicious reply guy.
Right wingers seem to like Dune
Dune is actually rightwing, a conservative morality play and distant future. Frank Herbert was what today would be called a chud and was very open about it. That being said, Dune is still amazing space opera and something unique.
I do find it funny when leftists who don’t know the background of the author and his own interpretation twist themselves into knots trying to make Dune into some kind of leftist agitprop.
What? Herbert for sure didn’t have good politics, but he was an anarchist, not a chud. What are you talking about specifically?
And dune is very much anti-authority, anti-eugenics, anti-futurist etc etc. it’s not “pro” much of anything. But most of the things it is “against” are chud things.
