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The author of this is a professional fiction writer. He does a lot of near-future SF/F, often involving assorted spy agencies - some real, some fictional. He's
by egypturnash 10y ago
The author of this is a professional fiction writer. He does a lot of near-future SF/F, often involving assorted spy agencies - some real, some fictional. He's made up a lot of crazy Secret Plots.
All of the events described in this theoretical book proposal happened recently.
So by imagining this book being rejected, Stross is essentially saying "truth is stranger than fiction". Which is an old truism, but we all need to be reminded of it now and then.
- acdha 10y agoThis is definitely a recurring theme for him, too – an incomplete summary of blog posts about the difficulty of writing near-future fiction: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/08/reality-is-broken-1.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/08/reality-... “... The TL:DR is that I have had to trash an entire draft of the next Laundry novel because I tried to satirize British politics, and British politics is beyond satire.” http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/psa-why-there-wont-be-a-third-.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/psa-why-... http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/sandbagged-by-the-near-future.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/sandbagg...