Especially when they have strong Luddite tendencies. The sort of people who are really good at science tend not to be the sort who want to destroy science and technology and live in the woods.
That was an episode of American Dad, wasn’t it?
The Spike is a 1980 spy thriller by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss (New York: Crown Publishers, 1980). Drawing on de Borchgrave’s experience as a jet-setting Newsweek journalist and conservative Washington insider, it tells the story of a radical ‘60s journalist, Bob Hockney, who stumbles upon a Soviet plot for global supremacy by 1985. When he tries to expose the web of blackmail, sex and espionage, he’s hamstrung by his editors’ liberal media bias.
Terry Goodkind, for sure.
I’m remembering a couple from the very early sixties. One was **Facial Justice **by L. P. Hartley. People were required to be equalized to keep others from feeling discontent. The main form this seemed to take was that women who were too good looking were required to have surgery to make them plainer. I guess that was the most horrifying form of equalization that Hartley could think of.
Another, that I can’t remember the name of, was set in a world where drug use had become the norm for half of society. That half were said to live their lives vicariously, and were therefore called Vikes. They took drugs and watched porn and dressed like futuristic sluts (both sexes). But they also held down typical office jobs, with no health or attention problems caused by the drug use, and they had a taboo against people touching people because that wasn’t vicarious.
The conservative half of society dressed demurely and didn’t take drugs but talked about sex all the time because that was real. In the end, I think someone had an epiphany and started promoting a middle ground that was coincidentally like a normal early sixties lifestyle. Yes, it did sound bizzare the whole way through.
I’ve never read John Birmingham. I don’t consider Bujold and Scalzi to be primarily military SF authors, even though they’ve written stories in military settings. They don’t usually come up when I’m getting recommendations for military SF. You’re completely right about Haldeman.
Frederick Forsyth, who seems pretty conservative, enjoys writing novels where Margaret Thatcher is great and commies are the bad guys, sure as Israel can do no wrong and private citizens with firearms can (a) overthrow a tyrannical regime easy as (b) play for-profit vigilante to drop evildoers the law won’t touch.
The Bible?
The Remo Williams books. Actively castigated Carter but apologized for Reagan’s failings. Also quite racist and sexist. But then it’s all dime novel stuff, so a general lack of quality can be ignored.
I was going to suggest Caldwell as well. Aside from The Devil’s Advocates - most of her novels are at least also very good stories :). When I was a kid (from an ultra-conservative upbringing) I thought she was fantastic. Now, not so much although one of her early novels (one of the least politic), Melissa, is still one of my favorites.
S.M. Stirling wrote a series of three novels set in the Terminator universe that pick up where Terminator 2 left off, and the villains of the story are actually named Luddites – that is, they’re a group of ultra-radical environmentalists who collaborate with Skynet because they, also, want humanity exterminated, and “Luddites” is what they call their organization.
But, but, that’s not what Luddite means!
Seriously? That seems like a major stretch to call that conservative.
Not “conservative” but “libertarian”, which is a slightly different kettle of fish.
Has anyone mentioned Stephenie Meyer
Not all that different, in my experience. Most self-styled “libertarians” I’ve met tend to be conservatives who want to legalize marijuana.
C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia takes various swipes at Progressivism, especially in education. But most of all- his SPACE TRILOGY- mainly That Hideous Strength in which a small group of Christian academics oppose the Occultist Corporate Socialist secret society that has infiltrated their college- with the help of Merlin & Planetary Archangels.
The entire series is basically a recasting of “Lost Cause” Civil War romanticism, with the erstwhile Confederates scrubbed of any nasty traits like being pro-slavery so the audience can support the scrappy rebels with a clear conscience. The movie, in particular, is about a band of rugged individualists uncovering a plot by a distant and disinterested central government to strip it’s citizens of their free will and ability to resist the state.
Sorry, I fail to see how that qualifies as “conservative”. By that standard, you might classify Edward Abbey’s The Monkeywrench Gang as “conservative”. Fighting tyranny and oppression is not a “conservative” value in and of itself, unless you want to call the entire 60s anti-war counterculture as “conservative”.
Does Fox News count? 
Red Dawn
I’ve heard Babylon 5 described as a conservative Star Trek. (by one of the actors, the security guy)
I’ve only seen the movie but I found The Hunger Games to be “conservative”, in that the villains were cartoons of “liberals.”