Let me clear this up for you
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why not all three
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If every genre you read is depressing, you're the common factor.
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Sci-fi is what the future could be.
Fantasy is what the world will never be.
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Split fiction!
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Sci-fi with depression replaced by hopefulness = Star Trek.
Sci-fi with depression replaced by hopefulness = Star Trek.
Only because everything problematic about Trek is written off by fans as bad writing and/or it being a product of it's time and/or it being a film, and any opinion to the contrary is considered deeply offensive fighting talk.
Not to mention the fan base can get hella toxic too, the Micheal Burnham Discovery era was not a fun time to be a fan participating in episode discussions.
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This is just wanting a pretext to be depressed.
People need a pretext now?
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For me, Sci-Fi is about the hope of a better future. In those stories, people explore beyond our petty problems of the past.
At this point in our development, we are like new born babies .... in a few hundred or even a thousand years, we'll be like toddlers.
When you look back on our human evolution as a species, our first ancestors came about two million years ago, the ancestors that look like humans are about 100,000 years ago and the ones that would most closely resemble us and our way of thinking is about 50,000 years ago. We've only been technologically capable for the past 150 years. When you think about it, we are closer to our frightened, superstitious, ignorant prehistoric ancestors than to any futuristic culture we would like to emulate.
It's going to take us generations and centuries to get to the point of being a contributing participant in a galactic community. IF we can survive that long.
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
- Isaac Newton
....... but saying all that, I don't mean to be disparaging or negative ... just realistic. In the long run of human history, it will be through people like you and this community of hopeful people that enjoy playing in these ideas and possibilities that will take us one step towards a more hopeful future.
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Apocalypse is when you happy about the future.
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If every genre you read is depressing, you're the common factor.
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Uh, did I always use the word "literature" wrong?
Literature is not a genre... is it?
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Uh, did I always use the word "literature" wrong?
Literature is not a genre... is it?
No, the OP is the one that wrong.
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You like science fiction because of how it makes you feel about the future. I like science fiction because space ships cool.
We are not the same.
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Wrong. Scifi at least is about the present. It just uses flashy backdrops and tech to bring you out of your bubble and think a different way about it.
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Flaw number one: sci fi can be a lot, tonally. It can be depressing, but also hopeful, horrifying, epic etc.
Flaw number two: fantasy can be a lot, tonally. It can be depressing, but also hopeful, horrifying, epic etc.
Flaw number three: "literature" is not a setting. There's fantasy and sci fi literature as well as real-world-related or apocalyptic literature. "Literature" is just written down stories.Also fantasy doesn’t have to seem in the past. H*rry Potter was written as present.
