Comment by mcv

All SciFi seems to become true to some degree. Star Trek inspired astronauts, while cyberpunk seems to have inspired evil megacorps. Or maybe the megacorps were inevitable anyway? Still, the Torment Nexus rings true.

But while I agree that dystopian SciFi has become a bit too common, it's not new. 1984 and Brave New World also seem to have come partially true in recent decades.

Anyway, I'm finally, finally reading Iain M Banks, and it's a lovely change of pace.

But I can't help but notice that in all optimistic SciFi, capitalism seems to have been died and replaced with post-scarcity (The Culture, Star Trek), whereas in all dystopian SciFi, capitalism seems to be the main source of problems. Is there any optimistic SciFi where capitalism survived?