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Doom! Gloom! Disaster Just Around The Corner! How depressing. Not just the worlds they paint, but that some of the brightest minds were (and are) trapped in

• vacri 14y ago
  In 1987 the cold war was still going strong, and the threat of Mutually-Assured Destruction was palpably felt. The industrialised world was divided into two sides and it affected politics quite powerfully. In 1987 there weren't the public glimmerings of the fall of communism - the Berlin Wall was torn down in '89. Since the fall of communism ended the two-superpower cold war, industrialised nations simply don't feel the threat of being sucked into a massively destructive third world war. Don't forget also that many of those minds write about things happening in a post-apocalptic timeframe :)
  • eevilspock 14y ago
    waterlesscloud was probably a child or not born yet, so we who were alive and old enough back then sound just as weird as the World War and Great Depression generations sounded to us. S/he will be in the same boat 15-25 years from now :)
    • waterlesscloud 14y ago
      I was 19 in 1987. :-) Old enough to be aware of the voices of Gloom and Doom even then. There's always an excuse to believe in them. And there's always a choice to see it otherwise.
• sbmassey 14y ago
  Science Fiction writers != some of the brightest minds.