Where Are the Families in Science Fiction?
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Lost in Space?
The last SciFi family were the Robinsons from Lost In Space. The latest edition of the show has the mom as the uberwoke, uberintelligent and manblaming head of the family and the father and son as the cause to all of their problems.
Let’s just take Guardians of the Galaxy...
Star Lord’s mother made him mixed tape before she died. And his father, an arrogant planet, hired private investigators such as Yondu to find him. Yondu, his adoptive father, didn’t deliver Star Lord to his real dad, but he didn’t eat him either, so that’s something.
Gamora parent’s were killed but she was rescued and raised by Thanos, who cares so much, he is willing to sacrifice half of everything.
Rocket was created in a lab, so caring scientists acted as his surrogant parents raised him to be super intelligent.
Drax’s family was killed by Thanos, so Kronos put his spirit in a new powerful body.
Groot, a human tree hybrid, was also made by a scientist.
So inconclusion, they don’t have families because they were all either made in a lab or their families were killed, or as in the case of Star Lord’s dad, you just don’t want to know, because it leads to “Luke I am your father” moments.
“Malthusian Nihilism, so currently in vogue today”
David Weber, Eric Flint, David Drake, Lee & Miller, Tom Kratman and Mike Shepherd all write stories centered around families.
What is June Lockhart? Chopped liver?
Consider Stargate: a near-military operation in SG1; a civil expedition in Atlantis; and in SG-Universe an eclectic mess of people caught in the cross-fire of an attack and who escaped through the device as the planet ate itself for lunch.
Universe did have some family as part of the story. A US Senator and his daughter. Long-distance "shore leave" to visit loved ones. The rest of the franchise, not so much. (Although the Ori arc included more families, but not as a focus.)
Then there was the early Star Trek universe, in which families were part of the crew complement on the larger starships and the space stations. On the Enterprise-D, there was a school for the kids. (And who can forget "Captin Picard Day"?) The reboot movies featured some family, although not as part of the main plot...except when George Kirk sacrificed himself so his wife and newbord boy could escape. Also, daughter Carol Markus deals a blow to dear old Dad's plot to take over.
The king of family science fiction has to be Robert Heinlein. Consider the Howard Family arc. And then there was The Rolling Stones, about the Stone family who decided to move to the astroids. (With Daddy, later Grandma writing a space thriller series remotely to keep them in rocket fuel. The big bad: the Galactic Overloard.)
The Expanse includes family elements in its plots. The Belters remind me of rural farm families, where the kids pitch in.
Actually, the comic book TV programs are doing a better job of portraying family situations -- but that's not science fiction, and so doesn't count.
Do “The Incredibles” count? Pretty high on both the ‘family’ and ‘coolness’ scales.
Science Fiction publishing was taken over by uber-woke fascists and they think families are some sort of oppressively artifact of the patriarchy so no families allowed, only gays, hedonists, and weird sexual fetishists. Anything normal is banned and blacklisted.
Why does Disney kill off all the parents?
Nonsense, at least for the classic SF.
Classic science fiction was written for the boys, teen and pre-teen, of the WW2 generation. Like me.
Teen and pre-teen boys don’t care about families LOL! (But they’ll learn soon.)
“Have Spacesuit, Will Travel”
Scifi has never been family oriented. Neither has mystery fiction. In fact mystery tends to display dysfunctional families. Scifi usually has wars or people facing technological problems. I don’t think its a sign of anything. It’s justvthexwaybthe genres roll.r
Families don’t play in dystopia’
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