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So I don't know how to phrase it, but I'm in the mood to read about a future where is is not constantly night, where the world is not one large urban sprawl devoid of nature, where the weather is something other than rain. Where they have fresh air instead of pollution. I don't necessarily want to avoid the distopian future bit, Just maybe a distopian future I could stonch to live in without killing myself. I'm not ever sure how you would classify this, but I's looking for advice and recs.

Thanks

How about Thunderbirds?

Minority Report is pretty clean and bright (for the most part). At least I think it was.

Maybe Timothy Zahn? His books are less "Ewww, people" and more "Yay, technology!!"

I also like some Star Trek TOS tie-in novels when I want a bit of light optimistic sci-fi. Diane Duane writes particualarly good ones.

Might not be exactly what you're looking for (since it is still a dystopia), but the Imperial Radch books by Ann Leckie make a solid point of having multiple, liveable environments, none of which can be summed up as "polluted urban hellhole." Even the bits on space stations tend to point out the decorations, religious icons, the fashion for loud colors and lots of jewelry, etc.

Also there's some of the greatest worldbuilding I've ever seen, if you're into that.

...seconded, because I was going to rec the same.

Assuming that you're not on the wrong end of the Raadchi feudal system, or turned into spare parts for one of their military AIs.

Re: I'm looking for "Clean and Bright" Scifi

flipthefrog.livejournal.com - 2015-01-24 01:33 (UTC) - Expand

1. Do you like manga

2. Are you looking for something that is explicitly SciFi? Like, if I have a series that takes place in the kind of future you're thinking of, but it's more slice-of-life than SciFi, is that okay?

Do you mean YKK? Because YKK is AWESOME for your purposes, OP. It's a sorta gentle twilight of the human race, following the coffeeshop slice-of-life days of a robot girl. You can read it here.

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loracarol - 2015-01-24 06:52 (UTC) - Expand

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lb_lee - 2015-01-24 20:41 (UTC) - Expand

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loracarol - 2015-01-24 20:55 (UTC) - Expand

There's definitely futures that are livable (Vorkosigan series and Culture series spring to mind) but it's hard to think of stuff where the emphasis is on the fact that things are livable.

I don't know! It's tricky.

Hmm, the Vorkosigan saga? I mean there's space wars and stuff, but there's also really vibrant character lives, funny stuff, romances in some of the books, mysteries, and just everyday people living with futuristic technology. More intrigue mode than bleakness mode, I'd say.

If you're not opposed to YA, Lionboy and its sequels are good examples of non-depressing futuristic dystopian novels. Also, the main character is likeable, which I've found is quite rare in YA literature.

You've probably already read it, but what about 'Speaker for the Dead,' the sequel to 'Ender's Game?' It takes place in a small colony, so there isn't really an urbanization; it's clean; there are forests everywhere; and it definitely doesn't rain all the time.

Ummm. Other than that...uh. Shit. I really wish I'd read more SF in the past few years. :-/

If you like cartoons, The Zeta Project. It's part of the DCAU, same time period as Batman Beyond, which it's crossed over with a couple of times. It's about a robotic assassin who develops a crisis of conscience when he discovers one of his targets was innocent, and goes on the run with the help of a young woman named Ro. It's kind of dystopian in places (it shares a universe with Batman, after all) but the physical environment is bright and shiny, the main characters are adorable (a killer robot should not be that much of a doofus), and even the main antagonists are usually pretty honourable (if overly zealous and sometimes rather dim). It's one of my favourite entries in the DCAU.

If you like anime, also try Stellvia of the Universe. Humanity is recovering both environmentally and technologically from a massive cosmic event a couple of centuries ago, but they've done it in style and through genuine global cooperation, and now they're ready for cosmic event round two. It focuses on a group of teenagers training to help with this event (massive wave of space debris/radiation), and has a bit of a pilot-school-in-space thing going on, but it's definitely not depressing.

Big Hero 6

Er... Star Trek might work?

Holy cow, how did it take this long for someone to mention Star Trek

(it's the best suggestion)

It's funny because the kind of setting you describe would be absolutely wonderful to me (I mean, it can't literally always be nighttime and raining, right? It just seems that way in popular media...)

I'd recommend William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy -- Virtual Light, Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties. They're largely set in sunny California (mostly San Fran) and while things are a little weird and shook up, the setting is overall not that different from the world as we know it.

> sunny California
> San Fran

I chuckled heartily

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dethtoll - 2015-01-24 01:36 (UTC) - Expand

Yes! They're quite fun.
(Tabaqui)

Old Soviet era science fiction was very much about these sorts of concepts. Idealized visions of the communist future and whatnot.

Of particular interest to you might be the Noon Universe created by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. It shouldn't be too difficult to find translated works.

The Strugatskys also wrote Roadside Picnic, right? I've been meaning to get that; was it a part of the Noon Universe?

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herpymcderp - 2015-01-24 06:43 (UTC) - Expand

Slonczewski's Elysium cycle comes to mind.
Vorkosigan

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cbrachyrhynchos - 2015-01-24 01:53 (UTC) - Expand

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resonance_and_d - 2015-01-24 03:58 (UTC) - Expand

... man, I think you've nailed why I dislike so much sci-fi.

Apparently a true story. Mad Max: Fury road was thrown into development hell because the carefully scouted barren desert used for the first three movies had record-breaking rainy seasons and was covered in flowers.

Re: If you want sunny, there's Mad Max: Re: I'm looking for "Clean and Bright" Scifi

kaijinscendre - 2015-01-24 02:08 (UTC) - Expand

WEELLLLLLL, I DO write a sci-fi series where one of the primary settings is mountainous forest and no native mammals. If you'd like to read about slice-of-lifeabout a human laborer having tourist adventures with giant bugs and horrorbeasts, feel free to check these out!

Also, here's a recent sketch I did for a story in that universe I'm working on!

a teenage boy riding a dinosaur-ostrich

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