[ SECRET POST #2911 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2911 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[esteefee]

This is true. There's pretty much nothing but dark stuff out there or coming out in Sci-Fi media these days. It's all dystopic, post-apocalyptic, or plague or zombies or what have you. Admittedly, it's humanity doing itself in (or nature) and not on a macro scale, if OP is looking for more of the Total Perspective Vortex being the downer aspect.

But it sounds like OP is talking about novels more.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I'm the original anon and that's why I said, "Well if you watched more television" because I know OP is talking about novels. I just found the sentiment of "where are my pessimists at?" interesting when I actually think there is a lot of no-hope-for-humanity media out there right now. It might not be exactly what OP is looking for, but it's hard to say.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[esteefee]

It actually bothers me a lot there is so much no-hope-for-humanity media out there. And actually, Ursula Le Guin made a rallying call for more hopeful fiction in her recent National Book Awards speech:

"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality."

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I think we're a bit over saturated with it right now, and I'm someone who likes dark stories but I still need a break from it from time to time. Plus there are some writers who make the mistake of thinking just being "grimdark" is a plot within itself, and that stuff gets boring really fast.

Sometimes it's nice to have a bit of idealism and hope in a story.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[esteefee]

IA. I think the trend has spiraled from two sources in particular: global warming and mass surveillance, which is funny in a way since both have been realities for years but it's only relatively recently the media has acknowledged them as issues.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[ketita]

Yeah, same here. It mostly reflects current feelings, I think, but wallowing in helplessness isn't doing us much good. That's part of the reason I haven't read much recent sci-fi at all - I have no interest in "everything is bleak and everybody dies and humanity sucks". That's not escapism for me, and it doesn't inspire me to work for a better future, either.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[esteefee]

Same.