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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:03:45 JST Charlie Stross

   #WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 17 Biggest fears for the writing world in 2025?

   Giant dinosaur-killer asteroid in June will totally disrupt the writing world! And everything else.

   No, I'm not going to share my more realistic fears with you, they're too depressing. Have a puts-us-out-of-our-misery low probability apocalypse instead! You could even write a novel about it.

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:10:38 JST Quinn Norton

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     @cstross I think a lot about the Bronze Age collapse these days, but also about how the people who emerged from it were in many ways wiser and better people. not great, but better.

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     Quixoticgeek (quixoticgeek@social.v.st)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:15:51 JST Quixoticgeek

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     @cstross "as the authors ventured back towards what was once civilisation, they reflect on how productive the last two weeks writing retreat has been.

     The ash layer on the car should have been the first hint, but when they found they couldn't unlock the car due to there being no longer a cloud for the car to connect to, it started to sink in that maybe something big had been in the news while they were writing"

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