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.
Yes, this! Becky Chambers' stuff is great!
I read Long Way to a Small Angry Planet a few years ago and enjoyed it, so I'll check out her other stuff!