Stories need conflict

[supergee]

Nancy Kress points out that Utopias lack story values, so we get a lot of movies about how scary scientific progress will be.

Thanx to Tor.com.

Comments

[johnpalmer]

That's a good point. Too much Star Trek would get flat. (Don't get me wrong, I love me some "humans will mature" stories. But, yeah, "they lived happily ever after" is a story's *end* for a reason!)