Post #2644395
2026-05-06 19:27 UTC
@ljwrites@writeout.ink Ooooh I love what you're saying about it! The fact that the narrator in the near future was the same age the reader is now, makes us both relate more to us and, I suppose, feel more deeply the possibility of that utopia or something. :D
Replies (1)
-
@ljwrites@writeout.ink 2026-05-06 19:59
@azaliz@eldritch.cafe 100%. It's like a time travel device, almost, envisioning oneself growing old into that world. I hadn't thought of the utopia angle but you're so right that utopian fiction takes this device in a more hopeful direction. I think Le Guin's The Day Before the Revolution achieves a similar effect despite taking place in a secondary world, because the protagonist lives through — and in her case, leads — a change from the kind of capitalist, statist crapsack world we're familiar with to a thriving worldwide anarchist/socialist movement. Aaand then fast forward in time and we get The Dispossessed, but that's another story. Literally. xD