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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Can the people who want (at least sometimes) stories without gritty realism give an example? Because I was thinking about books that I liked, that give a warm and fuzzy feeling as a whole because there is a happy end, but all the example that I could think of had torture, betrayal, loved ones that died tragically or just some kind of deep rooted desperation that the main character overcomes at the end.
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I've really enjoyed books by two authors I've discovered in the last year. Connie Willis, many Hugo and Nebula award winner, has a quirky writing style. People may die in her books, but it is part of life after all. As are good things that happen even with tragedy around.
The other author is Nathan Lowell. His Solar Clipper Trader Tales are reminiscent (not identical or derivative) of early Robert A. Heinlein. Again, life's joys, challenges and tragedies play out.
In both cases, the dystopia where there is no good, the best is a murky grey, is not the overarching theme. I like hope, not despair, from the books I read. YMMV
Dean