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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Everything good in the world is the result of people who imagined a better world and worked to make things better. Perhaps it takes a much worse world than this to make people imagine a better one. When people say that this world is so awful that it is obvious that people will write dystopias, I say "comapred to what?" Let's not look at the past with rose-colored glasses. I'm certainly not saying that there is no place for dystopias, we do need to be reminded of dangers. But the world isn't so bleak something better can't be imagined. I'd like to see some more balance, but of course the market will determine what books sell.
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Indeed. And I think if you say dystopias are currently popular because of the state of the world, then how do you explain the popularity of twinkly vampires?
By the way, while I'm not a fan of 'dysopia' as a genre (or an outlook) by and large, I did just finish the aforementioned 'Ready Player One' last night.
This child of the 80s found it absolutely fantastic.
(I
so could have cleared the first gate....)