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cjr, I'm certainly pro-science and research. My day job is R&D management. But the majority of professional authors are going to write what sells. It does feel like a dark future is what sells now. And zombies, lol. I notice today's stories still most often have hope and success as their theme ('even against such darkness and long odds our hero does his thing').
One of the darkest of my recent dystopian reads, Charlie Huston's "Sleepless," has a ray of hope at the end (a child survives).
There are pollyanna (my dad used to call the whole upbeat approach "Disney") authors still doing their thing too. But the market will trend to follow the money.
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