I have a recommendation if you are looking for some.
The METRO trilogy (Metro 2033, 2034 and 2035) By Dmitry Glukhovsky.
The books are based in the Moscow metro system within Russia. Moscow and the rest of the world suffered a nuclear WW3 so the surface is irradiated to hell.
The nukes first fell on Moscow in 2013 and so 20 years later people still survived but dwindling due to radiation, mutated creatures and other survivors.
The books are great! And if you like to game, you can play the Metro games (Metro 2033, Last Light and Exodus)
I recently saw a good chronological chart of ALL the science fiction movies by what year they took place in.
It said:
YOU ARE HERE
which was in between
Soylent Green
and
Children of Men
😂
They couldn't see to write them. The future they saw was so bright, they had to wear shades. Plus, they passed out from all the beer they bought with their 50 thou a year.
Part of the reason I like Murderbot is because it shows a future far better than ours. Not just in that Preservation sounds great, but bc even in the Corporate Rim, the nonhumans aren't pretending to be us and the real humans are still showing up in art (actors). Don't see that for us!
I submit there are several, maybe many. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ends badly for humanity as we know it. "1984" was no comedy. What do you mean?
Movies too. I mean who could forget the hopeful outlook of Soylent Green, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Death Race 2000 . . . I could go on but seriously how many hopeful movies about the future are there?
I was very disappointed when I discovered that the moral of Don't Create the Torment Nexus was that the Torment Nexus is good actually and creates loads of shareholder value
If you think your present life is lacking, do you really feel like escaping to some futuristic shitty life? We like to create worlds where we at least have a fighting chance against evil and chaos
Isaac Asimov had a number of stories that looked on a dark side too, from both human & AI perspectives 🙂
Even Twilight Zone had humans as zoo exhibits for a higher, space fairing race. It's an interesting topic! 💙
There are many many many. But Hollywood does not believe dark endings sell so softens them. For example, we walked out of the Matrix. I hated that it was a sloppy version of "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". But for anyone not familiar with Ellison it was original. Great movie.
It was 🤷♀️ yes.. it could've been So much better! 😮💨 My son found the old PC game based & named for his work & emulated it for me, it's glitchy, but reflects the Feel of the work better than the movie, but the book... *chefs kiss* I think realistic endings get rejected due to all the bad news, maybe?
I've been told that Life is sad so they just want escapism. I'm of mixed feelings about that, so I usually just hush up, lol. I always feel such trepidation, when sights are set on making a book into a movie... it's usually a disappointment 😞
Dude! have you NEVER read "1984?" Never seen "The Handmaid's Tale?" Or "The Hunger Games?" Oh well. That rock you live under must be really, really comfy...
Get your hands on Ardath Mayhar's THE WORLD ENDS IN HICKORY HOLLOW. She saw all the versions out there, and centered it in a rural Texas region. Also saw people would have to flee corporate or be eaten by it.
because at the 4th World Science Fiction Convention in 1946, the representatives of science fiction came together and solemnly agreed that the invention of nuclear weapons meant there was no possible way the future could be anything but bright
Read the series: "The Angel Brings Fire" and "The Future Burns Bright". They are science fiction/Super hero series set in 2040. Read them and see where the world is headed.
That's a whole genre. Dystopian, cyberpunk, solarpunk, et al. My books have the future as being full of conflict with horror elements. The Sky People in my series is a reference to the oligarchy who subverts civilization with higher tech
While you're here, I remember a few years ago on the Bad Place that you were saying that you were having problems making your fictional Nyarlothothep headed UK government worse than the actual UK government at the time. Am I remembering that correctly, or was it a fever dream?
Nope, you remembered rightly! But it's gotten harder this year for another reason—Starmer's Labour are a bit shit, but they don't provide the same impetus for satire, and I'm not touching the Trumpenführer's reign of chaos with a barge-pole. (Time to wrap it up and get back to writing space opera.)
Oops, I forgot one thing. The Rand people shrugged Atlas into hiding until a true ruling class of oligarchs could buy the government and give us the very optimistic current future we have been craving.
Decades ago, in 1984, sci-fi writers were bemoaning the same problem. They were told to be brave, there’s a new world coming. Then the animals on the farm rebelled and were forced to live in silos.
There are. Check out the future in H. G. Wells, "The Time Machine," Margaret Atwood, "Oryx and Crake," Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World" ... I am sure there are others.
it really is a betrayal that not a single science fiction writer thought to warn us about the dangers of oligarchs, soulless corporations, and cult of personalities and how they could lead to environmental devastation and the complete devaluation of human life. not a single one, wow.
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Sorry. Real answer to a funny question. Beam me out of here!
The METRO trilogy (Metro 2033, 2034 and 2035) By Dmitry Glukhovsky.
The books are based in the Moscow metro system within Russia. Moscow and the rest of the world suffered a nuclear WW3 so the surface is irradiated to hell.
The books are great! And if you like to game, you can play the Metro games (Metro 2033, Last Light and Exodus)
Foundation?
Dystopian authors took one look at the news and said, “You know what? We’re good, y’all got it covered.’”
It said:
YOU ARE HERE
which was in between
Soylent Green
and
Children of Men
😂
I wish I knew what the original source was.
glad I found it...
🤓👊🏽
Trumps crew are going to be an amalgamation of every b movie govt , refusing to believe science or what’s in front it their faces.
No no no no no no no virus,
Ah, yes, too late , ☠️
IN. THE. GRIM. DARKNESS. OF THE. FUTURE. THERE . IS. ONLY. WAR!!!!!
& really really funny.
(I’m sorry. I had to. Disney was just right there for the quoting.)
Totally true.
I promise. 🤞
Charlton Heston would be only too happy to clear up any questions.
Or was that a good thing?
Even Twilight Zone had humans as zoo exhibits for a higher, space fairing race. It's an interesting topic! 💙
But as well, there are many SF gems as movies with huge cult followings that bombed in theatre. Take Interstellar.
Get your hands on Ardath Mayhar's THE WORLD ENDS IN HICKORY HOLLOW. She saw all the versions out there, and centered it in a rural Texas region. Also saw people would have to flee corporate or be eaten by it.
"Soylent Green" is another....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pklr0UD9eSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY
"Well I'm well aware/ of the world out there/ getting blown all to pieces,/ but what do I care?"
I wish I was more religious, because God help us all.
My cats have been keeping me up the last few nights so I'm sleep-deprived and can't tell.
https://youtu.be/8qrriKcwvlY?feature=shared