{"id":797342,"date":"2025-07-18T06:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797342"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:02:06","slug":"adam-robertss-lake-of-darkness-is-a-quest-to-understand-utopia-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797342","title":{"rendered":"Adam Roberts&#8217;s Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2488696\">\n<section class=\"ArticleContent\">\n<p>In his sci-fi novel<em> Lake of Darkness<\/em>, Adam Roberts set out to write a utopia, a genre predating science fiction that imagines a better or perfect world. \u201cI wanted to investigate the logic of utopia itself. Is utopia possible?\u201d he says. Despite this, he admits that utopia novels are hard: \u201cThere can be, by definition, no conflict in the perfect realm.\u201d In this interview with New Scientist Book Club head Alison Flood, Roberts discusses the novel, his quest to understand utopia itself and why he could have called the novel <em>Space Satan<\/em>\u00a0instead.<\/p>\n<section class=\"ArticleTopics\" data-component-name=\"article-topics\">\n<p class=\"ArticleTopics__Heading\">Topics:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ArticleTopics__List\">\n<li class=\"ArticleTopics__ListItem\">\n                sci fi<br \/>\n                                    <span>\/<\/span>\n                            <\/li>\n<li class=\"ArticleTopics__ListItem\">\n                New Scientist Book Club\n                            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/video\/2488696-adam-robertss-lake-of-darkness-is-a-quest-to-understand-utopia-itself\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his sci-fi novel Lake of Darkness, Adam Roberts set out to write a utopia, a genre predating science fiction that imagines a better or perfect world. \u201cI wanted to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":797343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/797343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}