BoingBoing notes "SF writers advise on homeland security" as if it were a good thing, which it would be, if it weren't for this administration.
As you can imagine, they went and found the most right wing bunch they could, a group who have worked together for some time (at least Greg Bear, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle are fellow travellers). This group may be more libertarian than neocon, but much of their fiction is about defeating implacable aliens (Footfall, etc.).
Some highlights from Pournelle's imagined future:
Intelligence Services engage in serious effort to suppress all research into technologies with military applications. "Green" and "Zero-Growth" organizations endorse this ban. (note the hatred of environmentalists)
Around the year 2020
Reunification of Christianity by Pope John XXVI. (Some churches do not participate in this reunion, including some conservative Catholics from Spain who emigrate to Santiago on Thurstone, and those Presbyterians who settle on Covenant.)
2020*
The U.S. Government begins gathering the jobless in the inner cities and relocating them to "Welfare Islands": government-funded neighborhoods which keep them far from the "law-abiding taxpayers". These people are given the prestigious title of "Citizen", and granted the right to live on Welfare indefinitely. They may leave and acquire "taxpayer" status by work and education, or they may volunteer to settle on other planets, but most simply remain in the Welfare Islands.
His current blog is here http://www.jerrypournelle.com/... and is much more reasonable than what I remember of his past writing.
A code word, dogwhistle, for anyone who's read "Mote in God's Eye" is the phrase "on the gripping hand" which had some cultural paranoia moments in it.
Perhaps their most disturbing book, to me, was The Legacy of Heorot http://en.wikipedia.org/... Wikipedia notes
The book also draws from some of Robert A. Heinlein's work involving the adage "if you desire peace, prepare for war," in exploring the conflict between the civilian leadership of the colony who see no danger, and the military advisor who believes that danger always exists in the future. Cadmann is successively treated as crackpot, savior, scapegoat, and hero as the needs of the colony for his talents change.
Pournelle believes in Cheney's 1 percent theory -- build all weapons for all possible wars.
Update: Thanks for the interest all! I strongly urge you to learn more about this pro-military "Sigma" society that Pournelle etc. founded. Comments are correct in noting that Pournelle is the dangerous one in this group.
And if you think fiction cannot influence reality, see Jon Stewart's recent commntary on a GOP debate when one candidate said he'd "hire Jack Bauer" (from Fox's latest hit show about how torture is necessary when terrorists plant atomic weapons in the U.S.). The whole issue here is that the GOP is, as Stewart said, living in a fictional world
Second UpdatePleased to see how many of us are sci fi fans. I've never been to a con but my gf has. She hung out with Harlan Ellison (this was before I met her). He may make passes at women, but he's not a groper. I actually thought Niven and Pournelle were gay -- most gay men are not misogenystic but some are. Niven's fiction mostly as women in the whore role. As collaborators, they avoid women by creating races where the distinction between male and female is insignificant.
So, in summary from the comments: Pournelle is the most right wing. Believes the government has infringed civil liberties but also hates women and doesn't believe in global warming.
For a Green future history, see David Brin: Earth.