Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror

by on June 1, 2007 @ 3:37 pm · 2 comments

in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Statism, War

So says an article today in USA Today. Sad…to see writers of the future serving an organization that helps to insure it will be less free, more violent, and poorer.

Here’s the intro paragraph:

Looking to prevent the next terrorist attack, the Homeland Security Department is tapping into the wild imaginations of a group of self-described “deviant” thinkers: science-fiction writers.

Read the rest.

About Geoffrey Allan Plauché  (370 Posts)

Geoffrey is an Aristotelian-Liberal political philosopher and an adjunct instructor for Buena Vista University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Transformers and Philosophy. He lives in Edgewood, KY with his wife and two children.


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1 Shimmy June 1, 2007 at 6:55 pm

Literally, I wake up every day wondering why the White House hates its own troops so much.

2 Geoffrey Allan Plauche December 19, 2007 at 10:17 pm

Looks like Alan Dean Foster, whose Transformers and Sagramanda I reviewed for Prometheus (also posted on my blog), is part of that Sigma Group.

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