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.
I have a whole trilogy of novels like this. They take place in the late 2020s, after a successful global communist revolution on Earth, when the first world workers' state begins to explore the galaxy. The whole thing is available on libgen and also amazon of course. If you enjoy it, please leave an amazon review and let your friends know!
I'll check them out for sure!