6 Most Absurd Jobs in Sci-Fi That Actually Exist in Future Worlds
Observer
If you’ve heard of the ancient astronaut theory, Hard to be a God by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky flips that entire concept around. Humanity starts visiting alien planets that haven’t evolved past the middle ages and people called observers have to, well, observe. Ironically, this book was written by Soviet writers and deals with the moral dilemma of an observer trying to actively intervene in a foreign culture because they’re doing something he doesn’t like. Somehow I feel like this entire book has never been more relevant than now.
Child Trader
Joanna Russ wrote a lovely piece of feminist science fiction called The Female Man where men and women no longer get along for some reason and women use the small boys they give birth to as a currency for trade – they keep the girls, of course. If we’re being honest, as bad as that sounds on paper, the world in that book is probably better off since there’s only two factions at war with each other.
