History Main / BigFatFuture

* Jack Vance's novella "Abercrombie Station" involves a zero-G space station where almost everyone is fat, and aesthetics favor it. The [[AntiHero heroine, so to speak]], who's from Earth, ''isn't'' fat (and the irony of being considered too skinny to be attractive isn't lost on her). [[spoiler:The main antagonist, a native of the station, isn't fat either. And he's [[WeightWoe bitter as all hell about it]].]]

* Jack Vance's novella "Abercrombie Station" involves a zero-G space station where almost everyone is fat, and aesthetics favor it.

ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Writing about the Future has always been about taking current trends and assuming they will continue for decades to extreme levels.

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** It's also implied that the humans [[spoiler: lost a lot of bone mass after 700 years in the Axiom's lower gravity,]] so the pizza may not be entirely to blame.

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* Jack Vance's novella "Abercrombie Station" involves a zero-G space station where almost everyone is fat, and aesthetics favor it.

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* ''{{Fallout}}:'' ''[[http://www.vtfilms.com/nukabreak/ Nuka Break]]'' has the protagonist originating from Vault 10, a Vault that was backed by the sponsorship of the Nuka-Cola corporation and made to test the Eat-O-Matic Food Dispensers made for Vault cafeterias. Combined with a complete lack of excersize equipment installed, the inhabitants grew overweight, with obesity being the social norm. The protagonist, nicknamed "Twig", was the least overweight, and therefore the most picked on prior to leaving the Vault. As a result, he is addicted to Nuka-Cola and takes "fatty" as a compliment.

* ''{{Mad}}'' posited a {{Zeerust}} future where Western man, relying more and more on wheeled mobility, ends up round-bottomed with vestigial legs -- way back in its first issue in 1952.

Thus, we have the Big Fat Future -- assuming that this trend continues. The new {{dystopia}}n future doesn't have people starving to death. No, the average person in the future is too full of lard to move. They survive entirely on fattening [[SoylentSoy processed foods]] and move about using some sort of [[HoverBoard hover technology]]. Such settings implicitly assume a degree of ModernStasis, as they rely on technological solutions to obesity neither advancing nor becoming more accessible with the passage of time.

One of the current perceived "[[IncrediblyLamePun big problems]]" in the United States (and the rest of the developed world) is the growing rate of obesity.

* ''{{Wall-E}}'': Everyone on the ''Axiom'' lives in space, in low gravity, and spends all their time in hoverchairs eating fatty foods - like liquid pizza. As they also have extremely stubby limbs and digits and wear one-piece jumpsuits, the overall impression is a combination of obesity and infantilism. However, [this is not an example of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale; as everything on the ''Axiom'' was planned by a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and this was a result of an absolutely carefree lifestyle gone on for too many centuries.

* The people of the [[GratuitousFrench République Venus]] from ''BattleAngelAlita: Last Order'' have developed into [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/battle_angel_alita_last_order/v012/c080/5.html "Humpty-Dumpty" forms]] due to nanotechnology and limitless surgery.

* The people of the [[GratuitousFrench R?blique Venus]] from ''BattleAngelAlita: Last Order'' have developed into [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/battle_angel_alita_last_order/v012/c080/5.html "Humpty-Dumpty" forms]] due to nanotechnology and limitless surgery.

* ''{{Mad}}'' Magazine posited a future where Western man, relying more and more on wheeled mobility, ends up round-bottomed with vestigial legs - way back in the '50s.

* It's also implied that the humans [[spoiler: lost a lot of bone mass after 700 years in the Axiom's lower gravity,]] so the pizza may not be entirely to blame.

* ''{{Wall-E}}'': Everyone on the ''Axiom'' lives in space, in low gravity, and spends all their time in hoverchairs eating fatty foods - like liquid pizza. As they also have extremely stubby limbs and digits and wear one-piece jumpsuits, the overall impression is a combination of obesity and infantilism. However, this is not an example of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale; as everything on the ''Axiom'' was planned by a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and this was a result of an absolutely carefree lifestyle gone on for too many centuries.

One of the current perceived 'big problems' in the United States (and the rest of the developed world) is the growing rate of obesity.

Thus, we have the Big Fat Future - assuming that this trend continues. The new {{Dystopia}}n Future doesn't have people starving to death. No, the average person in the future is too full of lard to move. They survive entirely on fattening [[SoylentSoy processed foods]] and move about using some sort of [[HoverBoard hover technology]]. Such settings implicitly assume a degree of ModernStasis, as they rely on technological solutions to obesity neither advancing nor becoming more accessible with the passage of time.

* ''{{Wall-E}}'': Everyone on the Axiom lives in space, in lower gravity, and spends all their time in hoverchairs eating fatty foods - like liquid pizza. As they also have extremely stubby limbs and digits and wear one-piece jumpsuits, the overall impression is a combination of obesity and infantilism. However, this is not an example of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale; as everything on the Axiom was planned by a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and this was a result of an absolutely carefree lifestyle gone on for too many centuries.

* Robert Rankin's ''TheWitchesOfChiswick'' takes place in a dystopian future where everyone is fat. Except, of course, the main character.

* The grotesque JudgeDredd storyline "The League of Fatties" dealt with over-eaters gone to extremes. Although this was treated as one of the bizarre fads that regularly sweeps Mega-City One, the fatties would not have been able to reach the monstrous extremes they did without the supporting technology of the future setting.

* Inverted in Rob Grant's ''Fat'', which satirises the current obsession with obesity, rather than the obesity itself. The main characters are man who is genetically predisposed to put on weight, in a culture that tells him this is his fault, and a woman who the same culture has made dangerously anorexic.

* Inverted in Rob Grant's ''Fat'', which satirises the current obsession about obesity, rather than the obesity itself.

* In Dougal Dixon's ''Man After Man'', some of the early descendents of humanity are the Tek: humans so sickly and out of shape that they must spend their entire lives sealed into life-sustaining personal vehicles. This isn't due to poor lifestyle choices, so much as massive numbers of genetic flaws, accumulated over thousands of years in which natural selection against hereditary illness was suppressed by medical intervention.