All right. Switching gears to fiction-writing, after some tedious administrivia this afternoon, carried forward from yesterday's ridiculous 3-hour meeting & debrief.
What is your LEAST favourite sci-fi trope? Bonus points if it's something that gets done to death on #StarTrek!
I'm kinda over dystopia, @MLClark. Maybe because it seems less like fiction as we inch closer to making it reality. 🤔
I too am thoroughly sick of dystopia - not just because it makes sport of what's often reality, but because of some creepy libertarian undertones to the longing to do away with, say, 9/10ths of civilization so that one can have a better chance of building a kingdom of one's own with whatever remains.
We have to get better at making mundane, collaborative futures in hardship a more exciting sell!
PFF. Fine. But you better have something grand up your sleeve for your own next book, C.M.!
I'll leave that to you, @MLClark 😜