Not at all. Of course there are pelnty of exceptions, but generally, people write scifi that reflects the current view of the future. That modern times see a lot of dystopian scifi refekcts that scifi writers see a bleak future if keep on this path.
Good scifi relates to people. If you write something that is completely foreign to how peoole live now, you can’t get a big audience. Dystopian scifi sells now, because most people see current times as dystopian or see the current path to the future as one that leads to a dystopia.
The other way around, when peopke feel like they are living in better times and they feel like the future is bright. Than you see more eutopian s ifi is written. The early 1900’s for example saw a big boom in technology and quality of life for many people (who could read and afford to buy or write scifi). So there’s more eutopian scifi in that era.
Not at all. Of course there are pelnty of exceptions, but generally, people write scifi that reflects the current view of the future. That modern times see a lot of dystopian scifi refekcts that scifi writers see a bleak future if keep on this path.
Good scifi relates to people. If you write something that is completely foreign to how peoole live now, you can’t get a big audience. Dystopian scifi sells now, because most people see current times as dystopian or see the current path to the future as one that leads to a dystopia.
The other way around, when peopke feel like they are living in better times and they feel like the future is bright. Than you see more eutopian s ifi is written. The early 1900’s for example saw a big boom in technology and quality of life for many people (who could read and afford to buy or write scifi). So there’s more eutopian scifi in that era.
Than the wars came…
Yeah, just read stuff from Asimov. Definitely not dystopian.