Some quick reviews. This post talks about The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Die Hauptstadt, Serverland and Antifragility.
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Speculative fiction and Narrative Sleight-of-Hand
Update (2019-04-09): So I’m not quite sure how well this one has aged. Certainly there’s always attempts to mess with online anonymity. I felt all of this at the time but I’m not sure I still do. Anyway, here’s some words.
If your cautionary tale requires an implied social upheaval as part of the setup, it may not be as universally applicable as you think it is.
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