Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Stories About Underground Resistance Movements

Ted Nolan wrote:

Tony Nance wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:

Five SFF Stories About Underground Resistance Movements
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Taking a stand, while facing overwhelming odds.
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https://reactormag.com/five-sff-stories-about-underground-resistance-movements/
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Interesting!
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I've read the Russell and the Le Guin, and I've seen Red Dawn.
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The first Russell I thought of was Wasp, though perhaps that doesn't
count?[1]

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I thought of that one, but decided it doesn't.  The guy isn't
a resistent member of the polity, he's a planted saboteur from the
other side.
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And the first Heinlein I thought of was TMIAHM.

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I believe there is a resistance subplot in _Red Planet_,
settlers vs The Corporation or something like that.
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And just because I scrolled by one of the movies yesterday:
I think Harry Potter & Co organized a resistance, especially one
Umbridge took over.[2]

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Yes, Harry organized "Dumbledore's Army" which was to some extent
a resistance group.  And I wish we had gotten more, or anything,
on Neville & Ginny's resistance activities leading up to "The
Battle Of Hogwarts" rather than endless camping scenes while
our main trio did very little useful.
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Hmm.  John Christopher "The Tripods" as long as we're mentioned
juvies, and of course "The Hunger Games".  Actually probably
pretty much any juvie dystopia is going to have a resistance
I guess.

It seems probable given the juvie tendency to rebel.

Off the top of my head, both the Heinlein and the Russell occurred to
me, as well as:

ALONGSIDE NIGHT by Schulman (literally underground)
ATLAS SHRUGGED by Rand (plutocratic inverted underground)
CRYPTONOMICON by Stephenson (data underground)
DUNE, THE EYES OF HEISENBERG, and HELLSTROM'S HIVE by Herbert (the
  latter literally underground)
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Bradbury
LANAGUE FEDERATION series by Wilson
LOGAN'S RUN by Nolan
NEW ATLANTIS by Francis "Shakes" Bacon [1] (a scientistic underground)
PERRY RHODAN (sundry settings sometimes literally underground)
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH by Dick
TRANSISTION by Banks

Stories released in this century:

THE GOLDEN AGE series by Wright
THE HIDDEN TRUTH series by Schantz

At this point my mind mused upon making a shorter list of stories
/lacking/ an underground element.

Note.

[1]

<https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-10-all-the-evidence-you-need-to-know-that-bacon-was-shakespeare--56066545>

Although Ron Unz champions Ben Johnson as Shakespeare my own candidate
remains Francis Bacon. Regardless, a recently released 8,000 word essay
by Unz dropped this data:

    One very surprising fact that I’d never previously known was
    that all the published plays and other literary works had
    sometimes been released anonymously, sometimes under the
    name "Shake-Speare" including the dash often used for
    pseudonyms in that era, or sometimes under the name
    "Shakespeare." Meanwhile, the man from Stratford and his
    entire family, including both parents and children, almost
    always spelled their names "Shakspere."

<https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-who-wrote-shakespeares-plays/>

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