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Challenge for sci-fi writers: help us imagine a postcapitalist future we could live in. Build us a world with economics that are not just "inequality turned totalitarian" (Hunger Games), "Collapse" (Mad Max) or "hand-wave" (Star Trek)!

#sciencefiction #scifi #sf #whatarethetags #idontknowhowtotagthings

Sep 4, 2018 at 6:14pmWeb
Show threadAdrian M RyanSep 4, 2018
@nindokag Ursula K. Le Guin, Iain M Banks, Charlie Stross, Maureen McHugh, & Nnedi Okorafor all immediately come to mind.
Show threadJesse MiksicSep 4, 2018
@adrianmryan @nindokag yeah, I find banks to be very convincing on this. Player of Games, Use of Weapons, and Look to Windward are good ones
Show threadnindokagSep 4, 2018
@miksimum @adrianmryan Cool thanks for the recs!
Show threadJesse MiksicSep 4, 2018
@nindokag @adrianmryan no problem :) an FYI on player of games - a good intro to the whole idea of the Culture, but mostly reads like a good swashbuckler, not a super-heady idea novel.
Show threadAdrian M RyanSep 4, 2018

@miksimum @nindokag

I talked about both Use of Weapons & Binti on my podcast.

spectology.com

If you're either interested in that sort of thing. UoW especially, we talk about the economic system of the Culture.

Show threadHarry Pottash ✅Sep 5, 2018

@adrianmryan @nindokag
Cory Doctorow has a pretty deep look at good ways to run a post scarcity society, and how one would go about the transition in his book "walkaway". The fully developed society that is created in it's wake is explored in an earlier novel "down and out in the magic kingdom"

https://craphound.com/shop/

Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Show threadBert.Sep 4, 2018

@nindokag I'm up for some #conworlding or #realwordbuilding #Idon'tknowhowtotagthingseither

'One guy on Micras is a libertarian. He just sort of hangs around going “Yup, my country’s government still isn’t doing anything. Just hanging around punishing the initiation of force.” It’s very cute.

It makes you examine your soul, conworlding does. Over the centuries, changes in your outlook are mirrored by revolutions in your country’s government.'

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/15/things-i-learned-by-spending-five-thousand-years-in-an-alternate-universe/

Things I Learned By Spending Five Thousand Years In An Alternate Universe

When I was in high school, some friends and I decided it would be cool to start our own country, Bridge to Teribithia-style. As the idea gradually came into contact with reality, it degenerated int…

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Show threadBert.Sep 4, 2018
@nindokag heh, I don't even understand how to maintain the grammatical integrity of tags apparently. Live and learn! #gradatimferociter
Show thread✅ 🦊 CheckFoxSep 4, 2018
@nindokag DS9 tried getting away from the "replicators solve all ills!" utopianism of TNG, and dealt with the cracks in the facade while still keeping it optimistic.
Show threadnindokagSep 4, 2018
@checkfox Awwww yeahhh I LOVE Deep Space Nine. My favorite star trek by far. I've been rewatching it and it's actually even better than I remembered. I was a teenager when it played for the first time so a lot of the themes went over my head. Watching it as an adult, the moral ambiguity and compromises and living-with-the-results-of-your-imperfect-choices resonate much more.
Show threadAlgotSep 5, 2018

@nindokag

I'd recommend reading Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" and "Walkaway" for a post-scarcity concept.

Show threadAlper Çuğun-Gscheidel 🇪🇺🌹🌻Sep 9, 2018
@nindokag Kim Stanley Robinson does this almost exclusively.