Is SF anti-capitalist?

[james_davis_nicoll]

Or at least deeply uninterested in it?

Sure, there's lots of Yay Free Marketism but how often do books focus on non-malevolent companies [1]? I think Flynn's do (but I can't read him) and so do wossname's books about the immortal time salvagers (but the Company in that does not seem all cuddles and happy songs around the campfire). There's Moon, but even her business adventure series seems to have turned into MilSF.

This may be related to the dearth of people who work for a living doing anything but stealing stuff or shooting people.


1: MARKET FORCES, for example, does focus on a particular company and its stuggle to prevail but I believe that if one looks very closely, some elements could be interpreted as being critical of modern capitalism.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

City girl books. I don't think Bridget Jones ever joined the Army. I do recall one where the protagonist burned out on PR and took time off to work in a North African refugee camp, though.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I don't know that city girl books would count as a genre like SF, but okay I'll give you that. I didn't think of it because I don't read that sort of book. Though if that counts what about the libertarian polemics? Lots of them have hero businesses.