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Not All SF is optimistic. I could start bringing up huge names - but it doesn't matter. That wasn't really your question. Fiction - be SF or Fantasy - is mostly* about escapism at the end. People who read them don't want reality. They want to forget stuff that bothers them, that they can't do anything about. *Mostly, because some books are using fantasy/sf to introduce higher concepts, but usually that goes over most reader's head.