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Originally Posted by xg4bx
not science fiction per se but i've had to give up reading dystopias,zombies and 'survival horror'. i was consuming a steady diet of it and it just felt unhealthy.
i'm still reading 'gritty' fantasy and sword&sorcery but at least there still seems to be a sense of wonder without the soul crushing depression.
i think you can still have realistic, good characters and a positive outlook without seeming naive.
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If you went back a few hundred years and told them a story about a future where smallpox was gone, where the black death didn't come anymore, where people's problems weren't too little food, but too much food, people would have called that Pollyanna. But that's the world we live in.
Life can be Lord of the Flies at times, but a whole lot of times, it isn't, and people cooperate rather than disintegrate.