That micro story about billionaires going into their doomsday bunkers and 100 years later leaving and the world has healed without them that’s currently sitting on 2.4k retoots is exactly the plot of This Other Eden by Ben Elton, which came out in 1993. It’s just convergent thinking, I find it really interesting because it’s one of my favourite books and because everyone hates Ben Elton almost no one remembers it.
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Bethany Black (bethanyblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 20:14:19 JST Bethany Black -
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Gryphon (gryphonwandering@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 23:07:17 JST Gryphon @BethanyBlack I was surprised to hear “everyone hates Ben Elton.” I haven’t read the novel you mentioned (adding it to my list) but I still love The Young Ones and Blackadder, and just last summer he called Sunak a “narcissistic sociopath,” something I’m fully on board with. Did he put a cat in a bin when I wasn’t paying attention, or…?
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Bethany Black (bethanyblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 00:22:14 JST Bethany Black @gryphonwandering No, he was just a bit Nickelback for the last decade or so, it was round the time he went and did the Queen musical
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