But I would say that both of those are pretty fundamental to the story. I wouldn’t say that Cory Doctorow’s Makers is about either Economics or Capitalism. However, there have been a lot of books that were about capitalism, overtly or otherwise (think of the works of H.G. The first person I ever heard make this observation was Samuel R Delany, and I have been paying attention to the field since I read that looking to see to what extent it is true. But there is a soft science that doesn’t seem to get touched upon as much as others – Economics. This led to some pretty good books, and some pretty bad ones as well. Around the 1960’s some people realized that they could write science-fiction about the soft sciences as well. This simple idea dragged the genre out for some time, but for some reason people were only really ever focusing on the hard sciences. That’s not entirely accurate, but good enough. At some point someone said ‘what if novels but science’, and then she wrote Frankenstein. Everyone either knows, of can imagine, how science-fiction got its start.
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