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Shaked Koplewitz's avatar

I finally finished these! Thanks for the recommendation, they were pretty good

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John S. Niles's avatar

Following up on your words early on in this essay, "If we were to put genre fiction’s attitude towards these ideas [which are, Progress and Techno-Optimism] on a spectrum, we’d find that at one end of it we’d have science fiction, which is usually excited by progress, rationalism, and (naturally) science."

Comment: Isn't there a dystopian streak found in some science fiction? A world or universe that has turned out very badly because of technology gone awry? I just scanned the web and found https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-dystopian-fiction-learn-about-the-5-characteristics-of-dystopian-fiction-with-examples In our shared field of vehicle automation I think there is a novel available where the cars autonomously turn against us humans.

But you are writing about a different, perhaps dominant branch of the genre... is dystopian science fiction a small sliver?

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