The need for protopia fiction:
"Protopias are achievable. They present a realistic, better tomorrow."
"Murdoch could not find a single YA show or book that portrayed a positive vision of the future, at least not a plausible one that didn't involve superheroes or dragons."
"Really, the last time we dreamed about a better future was Star Trek," she said. "It was 1964."
@CelloMomOnCars Does Ian Banks get no love because it's actual post scarcity utopia and not a half-assed Star Trek version?
Beside the point.
Nobody is writing anything positive because we know that steady upward trajectory we've been having for ever is about to come to a vicious end and nothing we have is sustainable and none of our politicians are up to the task of saving us.
Not utopian but protopian.
There are still plenty of problems. But the idea that humanity got itself past the Cold Was was quite something: having a Russian piloting a multinational ship was huge, in 1966.
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