any good Utopian sci fis???

[rich!]

I'm going to echo the "Culture" books - but first I've got to gland some ice blue.

 

[strung out]

I like the culture books too, only just started getting into them, but very enjoyable

 

[rich!]

In Larry Niven's 'Known Space' series there are a few stories set during a centuries-long 'golden age' on Earth where everybody is happy and healthy, there's no crime or pollution etc. The only story I can remember from that period is 'Cloak of Anarchy'.

There's a gem of a story involving an immortal caught in a travel accident, and waiting it out. Safe At Any Speed. It's in the Tales of Known Space book - a good one.

 

[kakuma]

by some token brave new world is utopian

everyone has enough drugs and sex, and everyone is good looking

the two people who become dissillusioned with their society are allowed to go and live on an island with similar thinkers,

the only one who loses out is the savage....and thats his own doing




bit gutted there aren't any films

 

[strung out]

by some token brave new world is utopian

everyone has enough drugs and sex, and everyone is good looking

the two people who become dissillusioned with their society are allowed to go and live on an island with similar thinkers,

the only one who loses out is the savage....and thats his own doing




bit gutted there aren't any films

I suppose it depends on whether you judge a utopia by the happiness of the people that live in it, or by our own standards and whether the society is acceptable to us. If you judge it by the happiness of the people in it then I guess you could make a pretty good argumemnt for the society in Brave New World being a utopia. However, I think you'd be hard pressed to present a plausible argument for the society being a utopia to us. You're right though, a film would be ace


Except I just found this!

 

[kakuma]

there is a 60s version where dr spock is one of the super alphas or whatever theyre called and it's a superb excercise in missing the point (they sort of tried to make it a spy thriller )

 

[strung out]

there is a 60s version where dr spock is one of the super alphas or whatever theyre called and it's a superb excercise in missing the point (they sort of tried to make it a spy thriller )

Yeah, that's the one I just posted above I think. Got Leonard Nimoy in it.When you say 60's version, do you mean made in the 6os or set in the 60s? The film above seems to have been made later than that I think.

 

[kakuma]

it just seemed to be made in the 60s....

it really isnt worth a piss

 

[jannerboyuk]

Er, that would be the Culture series.
And there's no "kinda" utopia about it - it's about as close to utopia as you can get - that's part of how Banks came up with it, asking the question, "If you were in charge of a super-advanced, all powerful, morally decent (but atheistic) galactic empire then how would you want it to be run/structured? To what aim?"

I said kinda because in some parts it is hinted quite strongly that nice as it is it can become sterile and boring and in fact that your freedom is at the grace of the ships. A qualified utopia.

 

[Stigmata]

There's a gem of a story involving an immortal caught in a travel accident, and waiting it out. Safe At Any Speed. It's in the Tales of Known Space book - a good one.

Yeah- his car gets eaten by a giant bird right?