This will end well

[james_davis_nicoll]

The White House Wants To Use Science Fiction To Settle The Solar System

I expect this will be even more transformative than SIGMA.

This fits with a growing trend within the science fiction community itself - recently released books such as The Martian by Andy Weir, Seveneves by Neil Stephenson and Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson are each deeply focused on optimistic futures, rather than dystopian ones.

Huh. Not how I would describe the last two books.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Well, Star Trek is usually described as taking place in an optimistic future, even though in most versions of the timeline there's at least one and possibly several apocalyptic hellscapes sometime between the author's time and the depicted future.