This was part of why I stopped writing my own Dystopian sci-fi. I kept predicting things too accurately and it was depressing.
I think the prediction that did it for me is I showed a year 2045 where Police Brtuality was so out of hand that they forced Police to wear cameras in their power armor to try to curtail it. But it did nothing but mask the problem since the footage was rarely admissible in court
Then Police started wearing body cams
He didn’t shut himself away, but this isn’t far off from what happened to The Laundry Files by Charles Stross. He had an ending all lined up dealing with a cold type disease that made everyone stupider. Then COVID happened. He had a storyline about how some shitty British political shit. Then Brexit happened. He stopped writing the main line series for a few years because he couldn’t keep up with how batshit things were getting.
If you like computers, math, Eldritch monsters, dry humor, making fun of bureaucracy, and thinly disguised metaphors for anthropomorphic climate catastrophies, you might enjoy it. He’s got one book left in the main line coming out in 9 days. Thank goodness because I’m going to need him to stop predicting a worse future. He’s moving on to a space opera or some shit so I’m hoping he’ll start writing about how wonderful everything is so we can start heading that direction.
Basically The Onion writers rn
stop writing dystopian novels everyone. stop giving them ideas.
Only write solarpunk until something changes
Too late, The Handmaid’s Tale has already been written.
the handmaids tale - by Atwoods own words - is just placing stuff that white people already did to brown people in the context of doing it to white people.
Really? I thought The Handmaiden’s Tale is inspired from when the theocrats took over Iran and suppressed women’s rights? And depending who you ask, Iranians are not white.
well there’s lots of inspirations. Iran was one, Nazis, Soviet Union, North American Native Peoples, slavery, Cambodia, India, female circumcision…
The world’s leaders looked at history, and instead of saying “we won’t make these mistakes again”, they said “we can do it better”.
“Let’s speed run it.” “Say Less!”
