Word of Meowth on Nostr: I'm sick of dystopias. I want more utopian scifi/fantasy, like #StarTrek. Or Ursula K ...
I'm sick of dystopias. I want more utopian scifi/fantasy, like #StarTrek. Or Ursula K Le Guin.
Sci-fi predicts the future. Fantasy re-imagines the past, and how it could create different futures. Both are about the future, though. Every great epic fantasy is either post-apocalyptic or pre-apocalyptic. The Wheel of Time is both. Sometimes the apocalypse is averted, sometimes it is not. Sometimes the apocalpyse is bad, sometimes it is good.
With shows like the Rings of Power and TWoT, we're getting a dose. But they're not novels. I'm still waiting for GRR Martin and Patrick Rothfuss to put out... but I'm a writer too, so I get it. It's hard in a way that other things just... aren't.
Utopias, man. Utopias. How can we fix this shitshow? That's what I wanna read, and watch, in creative new ways.
Sci-fi predicts the future. Fantasy re-imagines the past, and how it could create different futures. Both are about the future, though. Every great epic fantasy is either post-apocalyptic or pre-apocalyptic. The Wheel of Time is both. Sometimes the apocalypse is averted, sometimes it is not. Sometimes the apocalpyse is bad, sometimes it is good.
With shows like the Rings of Power and TWoT, we're getting a dose. But they're not novels. I'm still waiting for GRR Martin and Patrick Rothfuss to put out... but I'm a writer too, so I get it. It's hard in a way that other things just... aren't.
Utopias, man. Utopias. How can we fix this shitshow? That's what I wanna read, and watch, in creative new ways.