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* John Norman's ''[[Gor]]'' novels were originally quite good [[Sword and Sorcery]] in the style of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], but then his male-supremacist views came to the fore and took over the series.
** As mind-boggling as might be to contemplate, there was actually a point when Norman novels ''didn't'' obsess on slavery. That point being 'the first book', which ultimately celebrates the love between a free man and a woman (and has slavery exist in Gorean culture primarily as part of the sword-and-sorcery ambience, not a major plot element). Book 2 starts the downward slide with a Gorean city where the women enslave the men until Tarl Cabot comes along to reinstate the 'natural order' of things by freeing the men and enslaving the women, and by book 6 our 'hero' is an outright pirate lord and doing slave raids just for the lolz.
* It looks like [[Dan Simmons]] might have finally entered this territory. First came ''[[Illium|Olympos]]'', where a Global Caliphate releases a virus to kill all Jews on Earth. A bit suspect, but no doubt a look at things spiraled out of control. Then came a short story [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024085922/http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm posted on his website], wherein a time traveler came back from the future to warn Simmons about the creation of "[[wikipedia:Eurabia|Eurabia]]." That was more suspect, but hadn't made its way into his works. And now there's ''Flashback'', where [http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message.htm among other dystopian themes] (which seem to add up to "Everything outside of America is going to fuck us without lube"), Europe has been taken over by a global caliphate and Islamic terror is widespread in the US, with the "Ground Zero mosque" seen as an impetus and most Americans engaging in "surrender tactics."
== Newspaper Comics ==
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