As Robinson continues, utopian fiction is "important, because we need to imagine what it might be like if we did things well enough to say to our kids, we did our best, this is about as good as it was when it was handed to us, take care of it and do better. I want something to give me hope and the will and courage to go on and try and do better with my life. And it is difficult to write a book where the problems that our world faces today are resolved, as Robinson has tried in his Science in the Capital trilogy, and make it a fun read.īut I am sick and tired of all the negativity in the novels I read. But it is very difficult to write a happy marriage – and make it a suspenseful book worth reading.
It is easy to write a postapocalyptic world, and it is easy to write an abusive marriage. Kim Stanley Robinson said that "nyone can do a dystopia these days just by making a collage of newspaper headlines, but utopias are hard". And I don't mean a happy end, but a happy continuation and a description of how this might be achieved despite the obvious difficulties. Not necessarily those that advertised themselves as such, but the small utopias, of people doing good, of relationships going right, of a happiness possible in the real world. I have always been an avid reader of utopian novels.
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