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* The final third of Upton Sinclair's ''[[The Jungle]]'' is a rambling treatise on the virtues of socialism. Most readers only noticed his nauseating descriptions of contemporary meat-packing practices. As Sinclair himself noted, he'd aimed for the country's heart, but hit its stomach.
* Terry Goodkind's main characters in his ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series frequently stop to give ranty, self-important speeches espousing a fantasy version of his Objectivist philosophy. The fact that he [[Sci Fi Ghetto|doesn't consider himself a fantasy writer]] adds a lot of weight to this one -- even if the Aesops are ''invariably'' [[Broken Aesop|broken into little teeny pieces]] or [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|completely demented to begin with]].
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] was fond of these. In ''[[Starship Troopers (novel)|Starship Troopers]]'' his characters deliver several lengthy monologues on subjects like the death penalty (good), conscription (bad), corporal punishment (good) and disarmament (bad), while in ''[[
** In ''[[For Us,
*** He goes so far in the economics rant as to tell the reader to go gather a whole bunch of odds and ends to ''act out'' a model of his argument and see for themselves how right he is.
** ''[[The Cat Who Walks Through Walls]]'' contains yet another example, wherein the two main characters stop what they're doing to discuss the virtues of libertarianism and how wrong-headed the alternatives are.
** "Prof" in ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]''; Oscar at the beginning and end of ''[[Glory Road (novel)|Glory Road]]''; Lorenzo Smythe in ''[[Double Star]]''; "Doc" in ''[[
** ''[[Stranger in A Strange Land]]'' has diatribes from Jubal about the evils of organized religion. It's not really clear whether or not Heinlein was truly advocating the type of government he depicts in ''[[Starship Troopers (novel)|Starship Troopers]]'', but Jubal really does seem to be a mouthpiece for the author.
** He takes a twenty page break from the story in ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' in order to go on a lengthy discussion of genetics which only has a moment of fleeting relevance in the plot.
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