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Which would it be? Honestly I find the society from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury to be so cool, I would love to live in it.
Which would it be? Honestly I find the society from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury to be so cool, I would love to live in it.
Since, like Fahrenheit 451, most fictional future societies are dystopian, this is a hard question. Similarly fictionalized historical societies, like their real counterparts, might be great if you get to specify your position. Middle Earth might be a very interesting place for Bilbo Baggins, but for the average hobbit it was just a hole in the ground.
I opt for the society in Nano by John Marlow.
Ooh! You don't see enough Silmarillion fans around. -I wouldn't want to live there, though.Harry Turtledove's Videssos universe or First Age Middle-Earth.
I haven't read the Culture books, so I can't comment on those specifically, but I think the reason so many fictional worlds are dystopic is because you need conflict to drive drama. In American mythology (maybe other cultures', too, I'm not saying it's purely American) we're really enamored with the survivor and the outlaw, so casting a protagonist against a backdrop of oppression and/or catastrophe is sweet, sweet honey to the American psyche. A world that's too utopian could easily come across as just boring. I think Star Trek and Star Wars strike pretty good balances between optimism and conflict.Star Trek has got too much sixties baggage, unless you dismiss TOS as uncanonical.
I'd prefer the Culture from Ian Banks' books. That's as utopic as it gets. The only problem is that life might feel a bit pointless if everything is taken care of by Minds.
Star Wars Legacy, Zeltros.