"Earth Abides" just started

[hunter]

4. It's lazy because it almost writes itself.

Create the characters, create the setting, and away you go!

It's really hard to create something fresh.

Two that I enjoyed were Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and Melancholia, both of these because the world just ends.

Seeking a Friend is the cheerful one, Melancholia is the heavy one. Both are explorations of how people might react to the end of the world.

I prefer optimistic science fiction and there's not enough of it, the kind where the future world isn't awful. Even Star Trek got broken because writers couldn't imagine a universe where humans basically just got along with one another, live and let live. Or maybe because our oligarchs didn't want anyone to get ideas. A society where nobody cares about money scares the shit out of them.