Interesting read, thank you! I'm only just starting to learn how to write fiction. I have a story set in the future, and it honestly surprised me that although I didn't want the story to be about climate change, there's simply no way to write a story in the future without having a point of view on how different the environment may be.
There are Utopian-oriented pockets of fiction, encompassing sub(-sub?)-genres like Solarpunk. Thrutopian 'hope' also remains a valid theme, despite being mostly oriented to survival and maintenance of privileged pockets of consumerist lifestyle. But some writers are expressly introducing neo-religious and cultural elements, without necessarily resorting to the Deep Adaptation crowd's perma-pessimism. But, in the end, humans will reach out to the ineffable when they can't save themselves from the inevitable. This may well include Singularity and AI affected cults.
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Interesting read, thank you! I'm only just starting to learn how to write fiction. I have a story set in the future, and it honestly surprised me that although I didn't want the story to be about climate change, there's simply no way to write a story in the future without having a point of view on how different the environment may be.
There are Utopian-oriented pockets of fiction, encompassing sub(-sub?)-genres like Solarpunk. Thrutopian 'hope' also remains a valid theme, despite being mostly oriented to survival and maintenance of privileged pockets of consumerist lifestyle. But some writers are expressly introducing neo-religious and cultural elements, without necessarily resorting to the Deep Adaptation crowd's perma-pessimism. But, in the end, humans will reach out to the ineffable when they can't save themselves from the inevitable. This may well include Singularity and AI affected cults.