I'm sure I'm telling you something you already know but.... JG Ballard's
writing is very political (I'm just munching through the recently published
collected short stories). Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash and Diamond Age always
struck me as interesting views of how national politics might develop.
Burroughs' Interzone, another. Someone wrote the following to me, though I
haven't read any yet:
quoted 10 lines You say you don't much like "trad sf" -- but a simon-pure sf writer
> You say you don't much like "trad sf" -- but a simon-pure sf writer
> who is currently writing and who somewhat resembles Stanislaw
> Lem in his wide-ranging intellectual brilliance and satirical edge, and
> can scarcely be described as "trad," is the Australian, Greg Egan.
> Try any of his books, all published within the past ten years, with
> titles like Axiomatic, Permutation City, Distress, Diaspora,
> Luminous, and Teranesia. There are occasional Ballardian moments
> -- but it's as though Ballard had been plugged into a
> super-computer loaded with all the up-to-date knowledge in the
> world.