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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 7974832" data-attributes="member: 6906155">Err, No. You mentioned Howard. Just like Edgar Rice Burroughs (and Conan Doyle and Dickens) his stories where first published in magazines.Actually, most of your "facts" are wrong, and suggest you haven't actually read the novels you mention. Lets actually consider some of those novels, because it happens I've read most of them. For the sake of argument, I will use F and SF to denote the most common classification.Howard (F): Conan stories are decidedly amoralHeinlein (SF): Starship Troopers is an allegory about fascism. Which makes it a morality tale.Frank Herbert (SF): Dune follows a standard heroes journey/chosen one narrative arc typical of fantasy epics.Asimov (SF): His best stuff are Agatha Christie style whodunnits. Which are standard morality tales which end with the murderer caught and punished.And, some of the authors you neglected to mention, presumably on the basis that it's anti-intellectual to read books written prior to 1960:H.G. Wells (SF): War of the Worlds is widely considered an allegory of British Colonialism, which would make it a morality tale.Jules Verne (SF): Most of his stuff is anti-colonial and/or anti-war, mixed with a good deal of Technology porn.</blockquote>