This article lists “26 essential science fiction novels to get you ready for tomorrow”.
As has become heartbreakingly typical lately, these are nearly all dystopian views of the future. What we desperately need as a society is to see “Wow, it’s lucky for us brilliant Dr. Greefel Burblatts invented the polygorphal exgraminator to avoid the global warming disaster we were headed for“ and the joyful future that follows.
The age of plenty, ubiquitous computing, millions of educated and well fed geniuses alive today, space travel and exploration, wonderful gadgets and architecture and art forms - these are all things we can imagine and look forward to. We have already a great surplus of dark tales to warn us of the dangers of the future.
Why not stories that help us to prepare for what could be if only we will imagine and then achieve what is possible in a positive universe?