Social Injustices

You know the great thing about SciFi is that you can write about current social injustices and do almost anything you want with them.

Star Trek in the original series had many social injustice themes.  From mixed relationships to bullying to nuclear holocaust have been portrayed.

In my novel, Viewing Creation: Encounter (free ebook), I recognized several social injustices.  Prejudice against foreign people is prevalent in our United States society.  So I intentionally had an international crew for the UES Encounter.  The black human is often prejudiced against, so I made the heroes buddy a black man and the prevailing race of the aliens (Qars) to resemble black humans, with some differences.  Threat of bombings anywhere, is a type of social injustice, but also a political statement.  I depict a bombing in the Preface to introduce the foe for the story.  Another biggy today is religious intolerance.  Its regnant in this society.  Everyone judges everyone on this one it seems.  From those who have a religion to those who don't, from those of one religion to those of another.  In the story the tension is depicted.

So SciFi gives a very malleable venue to tell your story.