Charlie Stross
Yesterday's news leads me to forecast the next big thing in SF/F genre fiction: the Cosy Dystopia—a future or fantasy setting in which the backdrop is ghastly but the sympathetic protagonists are running a tea shop in the borderlands.
Think Warhammer 40,000 space marines, with added knitting.
Alex Feinman
@cstross that's basically all I can write since 2016.
Rachel A. Rosen
@cstross I hate that you're so good at predicting the future.
Charlie Stross
@youseeatortoise There are predictions I was not even letting out in public before this election upset. I mean, wrt. the Dobbs decision, just look at the history of Romania's Decree 770 and ask yourself what a modern state could do to one-up it with smartphones and ubiquitous surveillance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770
epicdemiologist
@cstross Jo Walton beat you to it with My Real Children.
johanna, at the cafe counter
@cstross I’ll get my Emotional Support Yarn out & ready.
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