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.
phildini
ploum
@cstross : it is already there.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, from Becky Chambers, has a very ghastly backdrop (I mean, everyone is dead, civilisation has totally collapsed. It can’t be more dark than that) but, because the main character drinks tea, everyone seems to find that the book is "hopeful" and "inspiring".
Irina
@cstross oh like the Naomi Kritzer story? ("So Much Cooking" iirc)
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