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* ''[[Only the Super Rich Can Save Us]]'' by Ralph Nader. Yes, ''that'' Ralph Nader. Although- consumer advocate that he is- he never pretends that the book is anything other than 'how everything could be so much better if a few rich people got together and implemented my program.'

* Eugen Richter's ''Pictures of the Socialistic Future'', which has the [[Strawman Political]] as the viewpoint character who celebrates Germany's slide into Stalinist Communism and saves the [[Author Avatar]] for the very end. Interestingly, it was published in 1891 and managed to predict much of the [[Crapsack World]] the Soviet bloc would become.

* The ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' novels are one big [[Green Aesop]] after book three.

* ''[[Dragonrider]]'' by Cornelia Funke is flagrantly plagued by the author's numerous holier-than-thou agendas. Every character we are supposed to like is a vegetarian, a pacifist, and will never stop bemoaning mankind's need to put animals in cages even though this theme has cursory relevance to the actual plot, at best. The problematic nature of this aesop is artlessly dodged in that the good dragons subsist entirely off of moonlight and breathe fire that doesn't burn. In one particularly obnoxious scene, a main character sneaks into the campsite of a scientific expedition and releases several caged chickens and a monkey, an act that was not only entirely inconsequential to the plot but also failed to explore the ramifications of the fact that the newfound freedom of these creatures was in the Egyptian wilderness (lucky, lucky chickens). The author is further guilty of putting Eastern people high up on a pedestal over Western people to a point of othering them, not to mention betraying that she probably isn't as familiar with Asia as she would have us believe.

** Season four's "Beer Bad" is not exactly pro-boozing either. It was written specifically to get reward money being offered to shows that dealt with the consequences of alcohol and drug abuse. This failed because the episode failed to deal with alcohol consumption realistically, instead having a magical potion in the beer turn drinkers into cavemen.

* An [[In-Universe]] application of this trope occurs in the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode "Author, Author", in which [[Hologram|the Doctor]] writes a holo-novel which is essentially a screed against the oppression of intelligent holograms, with [[Captain Ersatz|thinly-disguised]] versions of the crew as the villains. However, the end of the episode implies that maybe the novel [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|is in fact necessary]].

** He later expanded in his blog that he was in fact just mocking ship to ship combat and not shipping itself.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has had several cases over the years, including "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10 E5 The Green Death|The Green Death]]" ([[Green Aesop]]), "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S22 E4 The Two Doctors|The Two Doctors]]" (vegetarian), "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E4 Aliens of London|Aliens of London]]"/"[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E5 World War Three|World War III]]", "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S15 E4 The Sun Makers|The Sunmakers]]" (anti-tax), "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S9 E2 The Curse of Peladon|The Curse of Peladon]]" (pro-EEC), "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S11 E4 The Monster of Peladon|The Monster of Peladon]]", [[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E1 Battlefield|Battlefield]] (Nuclear weapons).