I'm looking for worlds where the basic pillars of "normal" human societies and relationships have been knocked away (or never built at all), and subsequently replaced by novel customs that may be seen as strange or disturbing to us, as was done in Brave New World.
I'm looking for the opposite of BNW in that I would like this setting to be portrayed in a neutral or positive light, without the angst or moralization that's made BNW so popular with the sort of people who tend to miss its real point.
Ursula Le Guin and Ian M Banks have orbited around this concept, but are a little cleaner than what I'm looking for, plus I don't really jive with the style of either of those ai
by -thelastbyte