I am all right with not living in a Heinlein future. I wouldn't have minded one, though, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I don't reckon I'd particularly like living in a Heinlein future, either, although I expect it would be at least slightly better than a Larry Niven or S.M. Stirling future and I do suppose that at least my sex life would be better, that is, if I were one of the important characters rather than an extra.
An H. Beam Piper future might not be all bad, although I've a bad feeling I'd only be there to be a foil for one of his protagonists, or perhaps to meet a sticky end because of some ideology he didn't like. A Poul Anderson future might be all right, as long as it weren't one of the periods when society was collapsing into the Long Night or desperately trying not to.
I don't really know Le Guin's science fiction, having read only some of her fantasy, but I'll take your word for it. I regret for your sake that it's not closer to one of hers.
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I am all right with not living in a Heinlein future. I wouldn't have minded one, though, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I don't reckon I'd particularly like living in a Heinlein future, either, although I expect it would be at least slightly better than a Larry Niven or S.M. Stirling future and I do suppose that at least my sex life would be better, that is, if I were one of the important characters rather than an extra.
An H. Beam Piper future might not be all bad, although I've a bad feeling I'd only be there to be a foil for one of his protagonists, or perhaps to meet a sticky end because of some ideology he didn't like. A Poul Anderson future might be all right, as long as it weren't one of the periods when society was collapsing into the Long Night or desperately trying not to.
I don't really know Le Guin's science fiction, having read only some of her fantasy, but I'll take your word for it. I regret for your sake that it's not closer to one of hers.