ONE FOR NATALIE SOLENT: Without further ado, here's the 50 fantasy and science fiction novels socialists should read. Hey, Atlas Shrugged made the list. Wanna know why?

Know your enemy. This panoply of portentous Nietzcheanism lite has had a huge influence on American SF. Rand was an obsessive "objectionivist" (libertarian pro-capitalist individualist) whose hatred of socialism and any form of "collectivism" is visible in this important an influential -- though vile and ponderous -- novel.

Via Boing Boing. Of course. Somebody should make a list of the 50 F&SF novels for libertarians.