Ban time travel…yesterday

In 2011 the Chinese communist party banned time travel

movies

science fiction has been increasingly heavily censored in China ever since. The few Chinese SF authors you hear of are carefully selected

because the CCP have studied every cause that leads to the fall of authorian regeimes and identified science fiction among them.

For over a century, being the guys and gals who wrote about squidfaced aliens and pew pew lasers gave scifi writers a pass.

Imperialists, colonialists, hegemonists, authoritatians and totalitarians always overlooked science fiction. It was just too silly to notice, let alone censor.

On the Science Fiction channel we chart the 7 MOST subversive science fiction books of all time.

Who did we miss?

Published by Damien Walter

Writer and storyteller. Contributor to The Guardian, Independent, BBC, Wired, Buzzfeed and Aeon magazine. Special forces librarian (retired). Teaches the Rhetoric of Story to over 35,000 students worldwide.

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