Besides the contemporary examples you mention, some of the classic writers of the Golden Age also exhibited some pretty extreme neofascist tendencies. AE van Vogt, one of my adolescent favorites, seemed obsessed with bloodlines, inheritance, genetic superiority, and the rest of that racist gargonzola. Ever read "The Weapon Shops of Isher"? "The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." Of course, van Vogt's ray guns were able to sense the motives of their users and lock up when employed for evil. Too bad the NRA can't claim a patent on that one, even if they do insist a gun fetish is a natural consequence, or cause, of patriotism and freedom-loving carbon units everywhere.

Frank Herbert's Dune series seemed saturated with inherited nobility, ubermensch breeding programs and genetically crafted supermen. Or in the case of the Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres, superwomen. One of the consequences of the Butlerian (good Anglo surname, that) Jihad against tyrannical machines was the establishment of several classes of racially superior subspecies of humans.

I suppose its to be expected, sci fi writers and readers are inclined to be space groupies, and we all know how an inordinate number of them seem to have embraced fascist/libertarian tendencies. Yes, the two terms are interchangeable, now shut up and read.

"We are just BETTER then they are", if not by virtue of our genes, then because we are naturally smarter, more moral, have a better work ethic or because we are naturally more inclined to defer gratification, honor tradition and love justice, business, small government, low taxes, the law and our families. This is all the proof they need that the rest of us don't. Middle class values will conquer the galaxy, and if any of the inferior races and creeds out there have the audacity to embrace those values, its only because they are noveau riche and pushy. Like the Jews. And of course, benign fascist regimes, just like socialist workers' paradises, are much more easily found in fiction than in history. Ask Heinlein or Rand.

I'm curious, have any other science fiction writers or critics ever noticed these tendencies? Surely, some of those squishy Lib sci-fi types like Ursula K Leguin have trod this path before?