I often ask people if they can name a science fiction or fantasy world that they would like to live in as an ordinary person. - David Brin, via the Devniad.
Transmetropolitan. I say this half tongue-in-cheek, but it's true: it's basically this earth with all the cool shit magnified and the bad shit about the same as it ever was. Even as an average joe there's just tons of possibility.
Fantasy worlds don't have to be that bad, either. It's just that most of them are so ... non-egalitarian.
(And I'm specifically not counting TTU because, for an average person, it's just not all that different from today's here's reality. Perhaps a little scarier, but not different in the way of most SF/F worlds.)
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8/1/04 01:22 (UTC)Fantasy worlds don't have to be that bad, either. It's just that most of them are so ... non-egalitarian.
(And I'm specifically not counting TTU because, for an average person, it's just not all that different from today's here's reality. Perhaps a little scarier, but not different in the way of most SF/F worlds.)