In that case, maybe your original post should have clarified that you don't oppose dark settings. What you want is for novels to propose solutions, not just wallow in melancholy.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 5:29 amIndeed, Ministry for the Future is IMHO the best.rotting bones wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:06 pmOf the novels you've seen, which one is the best for the future in your opinion?WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:31 am It is one of the better novels I know. Indeed, I like it.
Dystopias are reactionary!
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I'll have to put The Ministry for the Future on my reading list. I didn't know that it was by Kim Stanley Robinson before I googled it.
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Right! There is nothing wrong in presenting the problems in the beginning of the story; the point is that in a good story, they are overcome as the story advances.rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 12:30 pmIn that case, maybe your original post should have clarified that you don't oppose dark settings. What you want is for novels to propose solutions, not just wallow in melancholy.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 5:29 amIndeed, Ministry for the Future is IMHO the best.rotting bones wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:06 pm
Of the novels you've seen, which one is the best for the future in your opinion?
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This post from a few weeks ago might be relevant for this thread: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/04/ ... teffeau-2/