I'm looking for books like the title - a realistic but hopeful depiction of the future. Mostly interested in near future, building after the revolution type stuff, but I'd be open to more outright utopian sci-fi as long as the worldbuilding was interesting.
Yup definitely, but considering Union has a Department of Justice and Human Rights whose mission profile includes freeing slaves I felt that it was a good bit more optimistic that a lot of other sci-fi universes.
Does that department devote any attention to the imprisoned AIs that undergird all of society in Union?
There's 2 entire supplements for that!
(That being said NHPs are still kinda one of the weirder tone deaf blind spots in the setting as presented in the main rulebook)