I’ve been sitting on this gripe for years, but enough is enough. It’s ranting time. Today’s subject: pessimism in Science Fiction. Buckle up everyone.
Back in the good old happy days of Star Trek: The Original Series, the future seemed like a bright and hopeful place. Humans were set to find peace and unity, striving as a race to create a better life for the species and a greater world to live in. Now, thanks to basically every contemporary Science Fiction novel, movie or TV show currently popular, it seems like the future is destined to be a bleak, gloomy, desolate wasteland. What happened to thinking the best of humanity? Why is there not more popular fiction extolling the virtues of our species? Is there simply no good drama left to be had in a technologically advanced future without everyone being oppressed, controlled or enslaved?
C.S.Bilsborrow 