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Galileo's Dream
Nov. 10th, 2009 10:36 amThis is why the man is one of the most effective and influential Sci-Fi writers of the last decade.
"There are a lot of problems in writing utopias, but they can be opportunities. The usual objection-that they must be boring-are often political attacks, or ignorant repeating of a line, or another way of saying "No expository lumps please, it has to be about me." The political attacks are interesting to parse. "Utopia would be boring because there would be no conflicts, history would stop, there would be no great art, no drama, no magnificence." This is always said by white people with a full belly. My feeling is that if they were hungry and sick and living in a cardboard shack they would be more willing to give utopia a try." - Kim Stanley Robinson
http://io9.com/5400698/kim-stanley-robinson-dystopian-fiction-is-for-slackers
"There are a lot of problems in writing utopias, but they can be opportunities. The usual objection-that they must be boring-are often political attacks, or ignorant repeating of a line, or another way of saying "No expository lumps please, it has to be about me." The political attacks are interesting to parse. "Utopia would be boring because there would be no conflicts, history would stop, there would be no great art, no drama, no magnificence." This is always said by white people with a full belly. My feeling is that if they were hungry and sick and living in a cardboard shack they would be more willing to give utopia a try." - Kim Stanley Robinson
http://io9.com/5400698/kim-stanley-robinson-dystopian-fiction-is-for-slackers
