Scinece fiction isn’t always about the future. Sometimes science fiction elements are meant as metaphors for the human experience. William, Burroughs imatined the cyberspace as a metaphor for memory in his seminal novel Neuromancer. 1984 was as much a warning as it was an analysis of contemporary political situatons. And Sherwood Anderson’s “Famine on Mars” was all about the depression. Here’s more from Science Fiction and More Ruminations:
Simultaneously drawing on the rise of fascism in Europe, Kelly’s “Famine on Mars” creates an even more draconian governmental manifestation. Earth’s government, The Combine, acts as a genocidal and malevolent political entity that brainwashes its inhabitants in the name of “the brotherhood of man” (79). His use of “combine” evokes two interrelated images of monolithic and mechanical power: new 1920s harvesters pulled by tractors instead of mules and a combination of both political and economic powers. Like a new-fangled tractor-driven thresher, the Combine mechanizes society diminishing its human concerns. Kelly suggests the working class in this future receive numerical names while political elite received standard nomenclature.
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