Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson
The Dig
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The Novel and the Utopian Novel
The novel is good for thinking by way of thick texture, imaginative scenarios where you put yourself in other people's brains. The whole world is a eight billion person collaboration. That is no reason that itsu succeed as well as it does. So the novel has to especially the utopian novel, has to walk a tight rope that is extremely a narrow between plausibility and reality.
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