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He has had personal issues, loved ones dying and so on. Plus he had to basically bin a year's work when the US elected Trump and suddenly his "satire" seemed ta
by Psychlist 5y ago
He has had personal issues, loved ones dying and so on. Plus he had to basically bin a year's work when the US elected Trump and suddenly his "satire" seemed tame and boring by comparison. Near future fiction is prone to that, but Stross got smacked hard. So a bit of pessimism is kind of understandable.
- KineticLensman 5y ago> Plus he had to basically bin a year's work when the US elected Trump and suddenly his "satire" seemed tame and boring by comparison A near-future series (Halting State) was also cut short when the Scottish independence referendum (and the subsequent Brexit vote) rendered that future impossible. That said, his Empire Games trilogy is set in a near future where the internal multiverse concept successfully allows for explicit discrepancies from our timeline.