a question!

[aria]

What are your favourite stories/fandoms/&c that take place in The Future? I mean things that are specifically in the future as in undated or set obviously after 2010; therefore things like 1984 or 2001: A Space Odyssey are out, but everything from Star Trek to The Road to, god help us, 2012 are in, but if you really want to tell me you like 2012, you'd better be prepared to really sell me.

(And yes, this is for a reason! It is a crossover fic reason. If this in any way informs what comes to mind, all the better.)

Comments

[marina]

Battlestar Galactica! COME ON IT TOTALLY COUNTS, RIGHT?

I'm gonna say broadly, Ursula LeGuin's Hainish cycle, and more specifically, because I haven't actually read all those books, "Four Ways to Forgiveness." It is my One Perfect Book I would take with me to a desert island, and it's in the future, and I love it more than I can bear.

[aria]

For this fic's purposes it doesn't, but it TOTALLY SHOULD. AT ALL TIMES.

Oh man, those particular LeGuin books have been on my reading list for a while! I think I will bump them up.

[marina]

FOUR WAYS TO FORGIVENESS. It is essentially 4 love stories, that's all it is. Just four really, beautiful, touching, funny love stories. They're even all het, if I'm not mistaken, so it's really standard romantic comedy fare. EXCEPT they are also about RACE and GENDER and WAR and REVOLUTION and CULTURE CLASH and SLAVERY and CHOICE and FAITH and SEXUALITY and just... everything. Everything. Desert island book, Aria, desert island book.

When I feel truly, truly down and disappointed with humanity, I pick up that book and read my favorite story (everyone has one) and I am filled with love and hope about the future. It's like my perfect fairytale.