So difficult to find sympathetic fiction online. Currently looking at a book called The Sympathizer by a Vietnamese author about a pro-Vietnamese double agent living in Amerika, seems interesting. Every other search result is anti-communist piss splattered over pages and sold as “gripping, realistic, startlingly accurate”.
Even if it’s bad writing or whatever, I’m curious if any of y’all know some explicitly or implicitly communist fiction worth checking out.
Well LOOK NO FURTHER! I present to you The Noon Cycle. It is a series of books by the Strugacky brothers, set in the XXII century where socialism has won. You get wholesome space exploration, moral dilemmas (tackled cleverly and thoughtfully, without Hollywood clichés). You get actually alien aliens and space humans. All kinds of stuff.
where can I get a hold of these?
Here you go
https://libgen.is/fiction/?q=Noon%3A+22nd+Century&criteria=&language=&format=
thank you!
Hope you like them! Unfortunately, I can’t vouch for the translation quality, but rest assured - if you notice anything anti-com, it was probably added in translation.
Why thank you :). This sounds like quite a series!
Happy to help!