This loses its sting after you realize all fiction is a form of lying. Dante did not, it turns out, actually visit hell. Or, "I'm Charlie Stross, and I tell li

This loses its sting after you realize all fiction is a form of lying. Dante did not, it turns out, actually visit hell. Or, "I'm Charlie Stross, and I tell lies for money. That is, I'm a science fiction writer" - https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-cr...