![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, they rely on relationships to succeed, picking each other up and dusting themselves down in the face of adversity. But unlike the golden age stories, Chambers’s characters live complex lives and know that not all problems can be tackled with the wave of a plot-solving gizmo. Increasingly, authors are writing “hopepunk” stories (a slightly cringeworthy term inspired by cyberpunk) that weaponise optimism, according to one Vox journalist.Īt the forefront of this subgenre is Becky Chambers, award-winning author of the Wayfarers series. Whether it is characters dealing with alien invasions, technology gone wrong or the ravages of climate change, most modern books in the genre are dour affairs, in stark contrast to the “golden age” sci-fi of the 1940s and 50s, when unrealistic techno-utopianism ruled.īut it isn’t all bad. I READ a lot of sci-fi and, my, the future can be grim at times. ![]()
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