Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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SF books that don’t take place in a bleak dystopian future

That description is right up there with problems that can't be solved by hitting.  :D  Here are some books. 
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elenbarathi

elenbarathi

June 9 2018, 20:53:53 UTC 3 years ago

Nice selection, thanks! I've only read The Ship Who Sang and (of course!) the Hitch-hiker's Guide series - both excellent. The Mad Scientist's Daughter sounds like one I definitely need to read.

Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin isn't dystopian, and it's quite hilarious. Larry Niven's Known Space series covers a lot of time and a lot of different cultures, both human and non-human, some of whom have catastrophic wars with each other, but the human societies are not dystopian for the most part. Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are set in non-dystopian, non-Terran-descended human societies: truly awesome books.

It's fantasy, not SF, but I bet you would love In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle.