On Brin's excellent Clarke diary
http://www.dailykos.com/...
I remembered a little graph I'd seen ages ago that had a list of Science Fiction (or speculative fiction if you grew up with the New Wave authors of the late 60's and 70's). A few replies were given, and an interest in finding the exact source was made.
I gave an answer a few minutes ago which read as follows:
"Okay... Could have been an Analog, could have been an FSF or Locus. Would have been about 1980 give or take a few years. They used a reference one-dimentional graph similar to the modern two-dimentional libertarian-authoritarian / right-left graph. I wasn't really that huge on politics when I was in my late teens (except I knew that Republican presidents generally sucked, and that hasn't changed since then) but I did find it funny that the most liberal on the chart was Harlan Ellison, my favorite writer."
Turns out, it WAS Analog (1977), and below you'll find the information.
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