A Connoisseur of Dystopian Speculative Fiction
Hope is built on a very fundamental level
How to find hope in the face of the climate crisis?. The climate crisis is real, but we are inventing a lot of new things. We are looking at the problem, and coming up with answers. The 19th century was a century of utopias: “They wrote a lot of them because they had made so many improvements already in the 19th century, that they thought, ‘This is just going to go on, and it’s going to get better and better and better.'
Why don’t we write more about utopias?
People are writing dystopias; why not imagine a better world instead?
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