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What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us?

What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us? Writers of speculative fiction routinely invent rules and regulations as part of their novels’ worlds. These laws tell us more about our own politics than you might think. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/books/review/ben-winters.html

This entry was posted in Novels, Politics, World on March 15, 2019 by Professor Arielle Saiber.

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