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Geez, I dunno. Maybe Lord of the Rings? Maybe?
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David Brin agrees.
I wouldn’t call either of them conservative, if we use Goldwater’s definition of the term. Heinlein was a libertarian, and Pournelle - shit, I don’t know what Pournelle’s rather pathetic brand of chicken-hawk militarism could be termed.
Update: I checked. His Wikipedia article says he served, but there are not references to confirm it.
This will end well.
Typical liberal thinking.
Pretty much anything by John Ringo.
I think Huxley’s Brave New World is a better example of a liberal dystopia (i.e. closer to what conservatives would think liberalism run amok would look like).
Or not. I know The Overton Window was ghostwritten – not only that, but the ghostwriter simply took a book he had recently self-published and changed the political POV around.
Turns out Agenda 21 was ghostwritten too, by one Harriet Parke – but, at least this time the ghostwriter got her name on the cover.
Having read nearly everything he has written, and having heard him speak on political topics at SF cons (mainly about how Americans no longer live in a “republic” because the federal government has grown so intrusive), and having occasionally perused his blog, I would characterize Pournelle as paleoconservative. In fact, he appears to be that rarest of all creatures, a paleocon with a brain. (Which brain recently had a cancerous tumor, BTW, but apparently it has responded to treatment.)
He was paleocon, anyway – I recall him espousing isolationism to the point of America pulling out of NATO. He seems to have turned in a more neocon direction since 9/11, though.
That would just mean that they’d write about society being dragged back to their ideal. Although in reality despite the name conservatives aren’t about conserving anything; they are about drastic change.
I haven’t read Orson Scott Card’s Empire or Hidden Empire, but I have read the jacket-blurbs and, going by that, I think they might fit the OP’s bill.
You would be mistaken. The present, or the past, distant or recent, is not what modern American conservatism is about.
Are you sure you’re thinking of the same book? The state in 1984 is quite explicitly dedicated to unfairness, and society is by design rigidly stratified.
The Dark Knight. An apologia for the Bush administration’s war on terror.
The Incredibles. Syndrome is like a conservative caricature of liberal thought. “When everyone is super, no one will be!”
Well, it’s a parody on Stalinism, not on anything we would now call “liberalism” or even “socialism.”
Sounds much like the plot in “The Contraband Cow,” by L. Sprague de Camp (1942). (A democratic international federation, including the U.S. and the old British Empire, is politically dominated by India by sheer force of numbers, so beef is illegal (sacred cows, y’know) and a black market emerges.)
Ooh, ooh I suppose you could count Terry Goodkind under the “Randian” heading. It depends on what you mean by Conservative, but still.
The character Honor Harrington never struck me as particularly conservative, but every novel I’ve read in the series has had at least one strawman liberal giving her trouble. And I recall one of the massive plots she foiled be ultimately motivated by an intergalactic empire needing more money to pay for its welfare system.
Well, not anything I would call liberalism, but I’ve heard plenty of rightwingers try to equate liberals and communists.