Brin is listed - Heinlein isn't.
http://www.changesurfer.com/Acad/Authors.html
They should take another look at We the Living, Time Enough for Love, Moon is a Harsh Misstress, etc.
This was a guess before I went to the above link, but perusing the blurbs about the authors there seems to support it: perhaps the compiler(s) left Heinlein off because they disagree with his politics. In support of that, note how pretty much each of the authors listed is described as "socialist," or by other code words which a "radical Rightie" of the Cold War era would read as a synonym for "Commie" ;) (Though that person would probably see nothing wrong with including Heinlein with the other "Godless leftists," notwithstanding his graduation from Annapolis and the end of his relationship with one of the other name SF writers (it's on the tip of my tongue, or should be) over WWII )
Edward Bellamy author of the ***socialist*** Looking Backward
Jack London, ***socialist*** and author The Iron Heel with an afterward from ***Leon Trotsky***
William Morris, a Luddite ***socialist*** of the 19th century, and his pastoral ***socialist*** utopian novel News from Nowhere
H.G.Wells, ***socialist*** and author of many utopian and dystopian novels
Olaf Stapledon, a ***socialist*** and an early and expansive visionary of the future evolution of humanity, of which ***socialist world government*** was just a first step
Isaac Asimov, a ***Marxist*** in his youth, and democratic humanist in his maturity, author of more than 300 books including the Marxism-inspired Foundation series
The Futurians - a Marxist SF fan organization that included several youths who later became prominent SF writers, such as Asimov and Fred Pohl
H.P. Lovecraft, a ***socialist*** and author of the many "Cthulu" horror novels and short stories
George Orwell, a ***socialist*** and author of the widely read critiques of Communism and Fascism, Animal Farm and 1984
Mack Reynolds, a science fiction author and democratic ***socialist***, ***who campaigned for the Socialist Labor Party***
Stanislaw Lem, a Polish science fiction writer whose philosophical novels sometimes reflected a rejection of the Cold War and authoritarian government
Iain Banks, ***socialist*** and author of the ***post-property*** Culture series
John Barnes, author of the classic ***ecological*** SF Mother of Storms
Terry Bisson, ***radical***, author of Fire on the Mountain and many of other things
David Brin, self-styled "cheerful ***libertarian***" and author of the provocative novels Earth and the Uplift series. His book The Transparent Society argues that absolute privacy may be undesirable. Brin co-founded the Reading for the Future organization.
[Remember that to our hypothetical right-winger, the main thing he thinks of when he hears about the Libertarians is that they stand for the legalization without any limits whatsoever of all illegal drugs. (Don't yell at me. Accurate or not, that is the impression many have of the LP, and you can guess how well that goes over with the Religious Right. If the LP wants to appeal to them, it needs to do a complete 180 on that issue or at least quit talking about it at all. (This unsolicited free political advice worth every cent.))]
John Brunner, a British ***socialist*** SF writer, author of the classic SF social commentaries, the ***overpopulation***-themed Stand on Zanzibar, Shockwave Rider (the novel that proposed the idea of software worm as a terrorist weapon), and ***ecological*** The Sheep Look Up.
[ObPersonalAnecdote: One day back in the 80s, my adviser and I were talking in his office and he brought up novel uses of Sinclair monofilament line, so I referred him to the appropriate scene in Stand on Zanzibar . . . ]
Emma Bull & Steven Brust -- Freedom & Necessity (1997)
"Bull is a ***left-liberal*** and Brust is a ***Trotskyist*** fantasy writer. F&N is set in the 19th Century of the Chartists and class turmoil. It's been described as "the first Marxist steampunk" or "a fantasy for Young Hegelians.'" (Abstract by China Mieville)
Octavia Butler -- Survivor (1978)
"***Black*** American writer, now discovered by the mainstream after years of acclaim in the SF field. Kindred is her most overtly political novel, the Patternmaster series the most popular. Survivor brilliantly blends genre SF with issues of colonialism and racism." (Abstract by China Mieville)
[I hesitated long before including this entry, but, to radical right-wingers of the Cold War era, "black" pretty much means "liberal Democrat" which a member of the specified group would consider pretty much equivalent to "Communist" . . . ]
Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman, authors of Back in the ***USSA***, an alternative history in which American became a ***communist*** country, and ***60s counter culture types*** are fighting for perestroika
[I marked "USSA" because anything like that or "Amerika" would certainly get an anti-Communist's blood boiling, and of course "60s counter culture types," or for brevity, "hippies" means "bearded-long-haired-maggot-infested-drug-using-draft-dodging-cowards who are obviously card-carrying Commies." I didn't mark "perestroika" because our right-winger "don't know what that furrin' word means, 'cept that it sounds Russkie" . . . ]
Philip K. Dick -- A Scanner Darkly (1977)
Could have picked almost any of his books. Like all of them, this deals with identity, power, and betrayal, here tied in more directly to social structures than in some other works (though see Counter-Clock World and The Man in the High Castle). Incredibly moving. (Abstract by China Mieville)
Paul DiFilippo, author of the RiboFunk ***Manifesto*** and Ribofunk
Nicola Griffith, a ***lesbian*** science fiction writer (Ammonite, Slow River, The Blue Place) whose protagonists have been lesbians
Nancy Kress, author of the ***radical*** democratic reflection on genetics, the Beggar's Trilogy
Ursula LeGuin author of ***anarchist*** The Dispossessed, the ***gender-bending*** The Left Hand of Darkness, and the cautionary tale about wanting to change the world, The Lathe of Heaven
Doris Lessing, a South African expatriate, political ***radical***, and author of the many novels including speculative fiction Canopus in Argos series
Simon Louvish author of The Resurrections, an alternate history, based on the premise that Rosa Luxemberg survived to lead a successful ***Communist*** revolution in Germany in 1923.
Ken MacLeod, libertarian ***socialist*** and author of the Stone Canal, Star Fraction and Cassini Division
China Mi�ville, author of King Rat and Perdido Street Station
"Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That ***Socialists*** Should Read"
"***Socialist*** Alliance Candidate Wins Literary Award"
Marge Piercy, ***radical***, ***feminist*** and author of the classic 70s dys/utopian novel, Woman on the Edge of Time
Fred Pohl, ***leftist***, a former ***Futurian***, and author of many SF novels, including the classic critique of capitalism, The Space Merchants
Joanna Russ, ***radical*** ***feminist*** and author of Female Man
Kim Stanley Robinson, ***Green*** and ***radical*** democrat, author of the ***left*** ***green*** series Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars
Joan Slonczewski is a ***feminist*** Biology professor, who has portrayed radically egalitarian societies
Norman Spinrad, a ***leftist*** author of the classic Agent of Chaos, a reflection on democracy and totalitarianism, and the 1990s Russian Spring, ***an optimistic projection of a Russian renaissance***
Bruce Sterling, a "Viridian" ***Green***, author of Schismatrix, and other works
Michael Swanwick, author of the meditation on technology and ***fascism***, Jack Faust, the ***ecological*** In the Drift, and the depiction of a completely ***collectivized*** Earth facing an individualistic space culture, Vacuum Flowers
[I know that technically "fascism" is at the opposite end of the political spectrum from "communism", but to our hypothetical Cold War era right-winger, "the Natzis" and "the Russkies" were both the bad guys: one in the early 40s, the other one in the 50s ff . . .
Kurt Vonnegut, self-described ***socialist***, author of many, hilarious novels with wry social commentary
Warren Wagar, ***socialist*** and author of A Short History of the Future
-- Ronn! :)
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