Fictional Futures

Fiction reflects life. I am reading about violence in Poul Anderson's "The Troublemakers" and seeing it on the TV news. Fiction becomes more vivid when dramatized. In a superhero film watched with Andrea, bombed buildings burned and did not look any different from the TV news. Sf authors can write dystopias, utopias and business as usual futures. Apparent utopias that turn out to be dystopias are a valid sub-genre but do not have to be the only kind of utopias! Sf writers could also contribute how society might get it right in future. Anderson's "Wingless" and "Rescue on Avalon" show the peaceful biracial colonization of Avalon. Unfortunately, of course, there is conflict later but not between human and Ythrian Avalonians. Better worlds are possible.