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Has sci fi gotten less optimistic?

SpaceShipFan92

SpaceShipFan92

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I love space adventure, battles, and badass characters. I greatly enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars The Force Awakens. I think The Expanse and Ancillery Justice novels are awesome but I seem to notice that alien life seems to be missing from the new space opera? What happened? Did society become more cynical? Do modern writers have less imagination?
 
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SpaceShipFan92 said:
I love space adventure, battles, and badass characters. I greatly enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars The Force Awakens. I think The Expanse and Ancillery Justice novels are awesome but I seem to notice that alien life seems to be missing from the new space opera? What happened? Did society become more cynical? Do modern writers have less imagination?
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It goes in cycles. No worries. What goes around eventually comes around.
 
SpaceShipFan92 said:
I love space adventure, battles, and badass characters. I greatly enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars The Force Awakens. I think The Expanse and Ancillery Justice novels are awesome but I seem to notice that alien life seems to be missing from the new space opera? What happened? Did society become more cynical? Do modern writers have less imagination?
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Perhaps. But it is more than just SCI-FI writers who have become more cynical. It is society as a whole.
 
SpaceShipFan92 said:
I love space adventure, battles, and badass characters. I greatly enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars The Force Awakens. I think The Expanse and Ancillery Justice novels are awesome but I seem to notice that alien life seems to be missing from the new space opera? What happened? Did society become more cynical? Do modern writers have less imagination?
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There are a lot of Sci fi writers out there and they cover just about everything.
I just finished Firestar by Michael Fylnn, very optimistic about the near future.
While it is a little older James Hogan had some good forward looking Sci fi.
 
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