I’ve been loving my hard scifi recently. But I feel like it’s begun to demonstrate how much easier it is to imagine all the ways things could go wrong. If fiction is how we lay an outline for the future, I wonder if anyone can recommend some more uplifting stories to me? Rather than a cautionary tale I would appreciate a story with a setting where the author dares to risk being wrong about what’s right for us. Naturally this may simply be the setting for a somewhat unrelated story, but I’m curious what sorts of literature comes to mind that falls into this category.
I found Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey to be a little too optimistic to be realistic in the end. I don’t mean that in a bad way, as I thoroughly enjoyed the story, including the ending. I’m just too much of a pessimist. :-)