On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 07:28:21PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > On 2 February 2017 at 23:21, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote: > > 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.
That was after Brexit and his response was basically "WTF just happened?" > 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. -- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison