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Re: Dystopias are reactionary!
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2025 12:30 pm
by rotting bones
WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 5:29 am
rotting bones wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:06 pm
WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:31 am
It is one of the better novels I know. Indeed, I like it.
Of the novels you've seen, which one is the best for the future in your opinion?
Indeed,
Ministry for the Future is IMHO the best.
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.
Re: Dystopias are reactionary!
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2025 1:02 pm
by Travis B.
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.
Re: Dystopias are reactionary!
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2025 1:12 pm
by WeepingElf
rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 12:30 pm
WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 5:29 am
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?
Indeed,
Ministry for the Future is IMHO the best.
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.
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.
Re: Dystopias are reactionary!
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 2:29 pm
by Raphael
This post from a few weeks ago might be relevant for this thread:
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/04/ ... teffeau-2/