Escapism? Noted your own rather unusuallly high negative propensity for it, it's pretty common in this part of the world. Fluffy as it may or may be, Futureland is going to be a lot more solid than, say, the V.C. Andrews school of romantic thriller, and those sell, like, a squillion copies a year.
A lot of people don't always have the tools to go looking for better, to be fair, and a lot of people don't even know that there's better out the to look for. But a lot of us simply enjoy, or fall back on, quick and easy immersion in the sights and sounds of somebody else's world; not every piece of fiction need to do double-time, to be anything beyond what it is.
Not an excuse for bad writing, of course, but a book can be enjoyed without it changing your life.
(_I_ think everyone should read Dostoevsky. Reading silly books is no excuse for avoiding good ones.)
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A lot of people don't always have the tools to go looking for better, to be fair, and a lot of people don't even know that there's better out the to look for. But a lot of us simply enjoy, or fall back on, quick and easy immersion in the sights and sounds of somebody else's world; not every piece of fiction need to do double-time, to be anything beyond what it is.
Not an excuse for bad writing, of course, but a book can be enjoyed without it changing your life.
(_I_ think everyone should read Dostoevsky. Reading silly books is no excuse for avoiding good ones.)