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China Mieville is a brilliant science fiction and fantasy novel who is also a second-generation Marxist. He's produced an amazing annotated bibliography of fifty sf/f novels for socialists.
Ayn Rand--Atlas Shrugged (1957)Link (via Making Light)Know your enemy. This panoply of portentous Nietzcheanism lite has had a huge influence on American SF. Rand was an obsessive "objectivist" (libertarian pro-capitalist individualist) whose hatred of socialism and any form of "collectivism" is visible in this important an influential--though vile and ponderous--novel.
I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.