If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.