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Contrast [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?]]. May overlap with [[Artistic License]].
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== Anime ==
* ''[[Earth Maiden Arjuna]]'' starts out as a fast-paced mature [[Magical Girl]] series. Then it quickly veers into ''very'' heavy-handed ecological preaching. Tolerable, because the animation is freaking sweet, because Theresa is really [[Badass]] and because Juna's transformation is [[Rule of Cool|damn cool]], but the storyline is still [[Anvilicious]] to the point of being distracting, and full to the brim of ''very'' [[Did Not Do the Research|bad science]] about why [[Science Is Bad]].
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* 99% of everything that [[John Milton]] wrote (including, tautologically, his political tracts).
* [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[Jack Ryan|Executive Orders]]'' has President Jack Ryan remaking the U.S. government.
* Norman Spinrad's ''[[The Iron Dream]]''. An [[Alternate History]] [[Adolf Hitler]] (who became a writer instead of a politician) writes ''Lord Of The Swastika'', a pulp SF adventure with a plot that mirrors the real-world rise of the Third Reich. It's followed by a review where a scholar heaps praise on Hitler as a brilliant writer of rollicking good adventure stories, and whose only criticism is that he thinks it was a bit implausible for the protagonist to rise to power by creating a rather silly
** Of course, Spinrad's tract is one of the few actually capable of actually proving its point, since it is about ''fiction'', rather than the real world. His point is "many if not most pulp SF and [[Heroic Fantasy]] stories are characterized by vaguely Nazi/Fascist [[Broken Aesop]]s, to say nothing of machismo that would put [[Freud Was Right|Freud]] in a tizzy," and this is a point he can ''prove'' by going on to write a fairly typical (if exaggerated) pulp Science Fiction/Heroic Fantasy novel that is ''obviously'' Nazi and ''obviously'' and steroidically Freudian. Taking ''The Iron Dream'' as a model, we can then compare it non-Tract pulp and find the salient similarities (which are chillingly many).
* Ernest Callenbach's ''[[Ecotopia]]'', a depiction of an environmentalist utopia.
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