#utopian sci fi

[hermitprivilege]

One of the reasons I dislike utopian sci-fi is because it just makes me feel so excluded. Feeling excluded is not always bad; sometimes it’s very powerful and reminds one of their own unimportance. But dystopian fiction tells me “here is a future that people like you could not exist in (or if they did exist, it would be a miserable existence), and this is bad.” Utopian fiction tells me “here is a future that people like you could not exist in (or if they did exist, it would be a miserable existence), and this is good.”

[rollership]

While reading Kim Stanley Robinson makes me feel stupid and illiterate stopping every other sentence out of boredom, and reading Cory Doctorow makes me enjoy reading I can pay attention and finish a book quickly. Because there is no wasted words, every sentence is somehow utopian propaganda, its fun. This is not a stupid competition because that isn't important to utopians, but some things just work better. Irrelevance and too much scene building can kill a story even when the reader really wants to like it. Packing your stories with all the great ideas you want to tell people about without filler is the difference between finishing a book quickly and never finishing it. In my opinion. Kurt Vonnegut was easy to read.

[rollership]

Reading this book now, pretty good so far.

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[rollership]

This is really great very creative sci fi of the utopian style. Audiobooks are perfect to do art, construction projects, cleaning, or any manual work. Mix with music for exercise.

[rollership]

canadian utopian minded dystopian sci fi, GrandStar.

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[rollership]

In many utopias in the galaxy "attention deficit disorder" is usually actually called something like "surplus awareness order".