3 Feb
2017
3 Feb
'17
11:30 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 07:28:21PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
On 2 February 2017 at 23:21, Fred Cisin <cisin at
xenosoft.com> wrote:
That was after Brexit and his response was basically "WTF just happened?"
Frankly, it SCARES me that that wasn't absurd
enough!
A friend of mine, Charlie Stross, recently had to rewrite the outline
of a novel because his bleak dystopian vision of the near-future "free
world" wasn't _nearly_ bleak enough and the actual world has turned a
lot worse. After his hasty rewrite, it's gone nastier again.
His novel will now
seem like a cheerful upbeat alternate timeline instead.
And I guess this was after Trump, same response.
I guess these days it is hard to write dystopian fiction since reality
is hell bent to out do your darkest nightmares.
Kind regards,
Alex.
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