>I've grown very leery of anything before the 90s I know you're speaking about sci-fi here, but what makes it different than the vast majority of literature th

>I've grown very leery of anything before the 90s I know you're speaking about sci-fi here, but what makes it different than the vast majority of literature that exists? The majority of anything written before our current times will likely not be politically correct as far as todays standards go, in regards to stereotypes and such. That seems like an awful lot of literature to exclude based on the portrayal of fictional characters created in a society fairly different to our own. I find the attitude worrisome. Funnily enough, it reminds me of Farenheit 451 and the oppressive censorship towards anything that made people feel uncomfortable. As a kid, in the 90's, in grade 4 or 5 or something we had to read Huckleberry Finn, it's full of fairly extreme example of some fairly negative stereotypes. Before we read the story, our teacher explained to us about historical context, how the language used in the book was inappropriate and hateful to use. Then we read the book. There were no problems, nobody got upset, nobody started using racist words after, no parents complained and the sky didn't fall. Sometimes literature should make you uncomfortable, it should remind you of the way things used to be, how we've progressed and why the way it was didn't work. If this is ignored or forgotten, we risk going back to this as a society.