Thread: Is today's SF too pessimistic?
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Old 03-23-2012, 03:14 AM   #48
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Originally Posted by VaporPunk View Post
If anyone could recommend a good SF work that is optimistic and well grounded in sciences (Both Social and Scientific) I would love to give it a try.
You might like to give a try to Robert J. Sawyer. He's generally pretty optimistic, and fairly scientifically grounded (and a fellow MR member author and a Canadian as well).

His latest published work, the WWW trilogy, is fairly upbeat and about joyous discovery of consciousness and awakening of a kind of AI in conjunction with specialized near-future-tech allowing the blind to see and the broader cultural impact of it all (disclaimer: I have not read the last book so maybe it all goes to hell in a handbasket).

The 1st novel, Wake, was nominated for a Hugo Award, and here's a page on the author's site with the other award noms and some info and chapter excerpts, if you're interested. He's also got some free short stories to try out (not all optimistic and some quite dark).
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