Science Fiction at its best

If we consider only serious literature, science fiction, at its best, aims to make the readers think about important humanistic values. Often it achieves this by contrasting two civilizations: a corrupt, dying, self-destructive one (not unlike our own) with a vibrant, healthy well balanced utopia. Without preaching to the reader, it shows, by example, how easy and simple life could be if we used our brains more often, instead of our confused and often violent emotions. The great masters of the genre like Ursula Le Guin, Ray Bradbury or Kurt Vonnegut belong to this group of intellectual writers who want to teach rather than just to entertain.

Vera Mont’s “The Ozimord Project” falls in this category by portraying a dying civilization and contrasting it with a healthy, intelligently innocent culture that values individual happiness above all else. The Ozimordians achieve this by maximizing individual freedom in all areas of life: intellectual, emotional, sexual, and show a shiny example of what a cooperative society can achieve without destroying their planet in the process. It’s the simplicity of their solution that I find most impressive: the casual, uncomplicated way they relate to each other and to their world. No ideologies, no religions, no destructive competition sullies the ultimate aim: live and let live without destructive domination games. The reader can’t help feeling nostalgic about this utopia, especially by recognizing his or her own world in the ‘other’ - mirror image of our own culture.

The writing is exceptionally literate, the language used is rich and nuanced and the underlining subtle humour, especially focused by the unexpected twist at the end, should delight all connoisseurs of serious literature.

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