EUtopias and Other Futures: A European Journal of Science Fiction

Cities under domes: The future of our existence? By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** A friend has recently shared this article as a reminder (from a couple of years ago). In it, US speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson is mentioned, calling, at the time (in 2012), for less dystopias and more of the optimistic futuristic in science fiction, addressing the call to "SF authors" as such. I don't think the call by Stephenson projected a truly representative characterisation of the huge and diverse population of SF authors (and their equally, if not more, diverse set of works). But I did talk in a critical way about there being a dystopia bandwagon of sorts earlier on myself, so this may be worth reflecting on. The trend of dystopia mania is most visible, ironically, outside the SF realm, when authors who rather belong to mainstream literature choose to go down this road -- think Cormac ...

Brighton Pier, for reasons explained below - picture by Jean Housen (Wikimedia Commons) By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** Science fiction would not be what it is today if it wouldn't deal with the topic of climate change as a very prominent subject. Many stories address Europe's future as it may be impacted by related processes, and to do a comprehensive review of all those that are relevant in this respect would be... wonderful! For lack of time, and in appreciation of all the collective wisdom out there, however, this brief post only looks to sow some seeds, mention a few works, call attention to the issue, and, basically, invite others to point out further, other works that pertain to our interests here, in the comments... if there are other survivors out there ready to make such comments. (1) One of the first authors who come to mind, historically speaking, is J. G. Ballard (a.k.a. James ...