Is there hope for the future? What will the future be like? It’s a topic that ____ again and again in modern times. In science-fiction films, the future worlds we are shown are often dark and scary places. In the film Blade Runner we see robots that ____ by Harrison Ford’s character. The future we are shown in Planet of the Apes is very bleak indeed. This kind of future ____ a dystopia – a place where things are unpleasant or bad (the opposite is called a utopia). But do things have to be so depressing? Some people think not. Project Hieroglyph ____ to see what happens when people ____ by science fiction to create a better future. Writers, scientists, engineers and artists ____ together to make stories about things which could actually happen in the near future. How easy is it to write a hopeful story about the future though? Some people think it’s much easier to create a dystopia than to write a more feel-good story. They ____ stories are more interesting if there are a lot of problems to be solved. If everything is perfect already, there is no challenge for the characters. Even so, the project has already produced a book with some promising stories. One of these is about environmentalists fighting to stop a hotel being built in Antarctica. It’s a realistic scenario with an element of conflict in it – things that ____ a good story. The question ____ if all this writing will actually change anything. Ed Finn, who edited the book, thinks that it can: "A good science-fiction story can be very powerful. It can inspire hundreds, thousands, millions of people to rally around something that they want to do."

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