Vinge explicitly makes the connection between the mindrot plague and the creation of the fascist Emergent caste system.
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yep ; he just didn't hammer the reader over the head with it, IIRC
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I have read A Fire Upon the Deep. Looks as if I need to add another one of Vinge’s books to my reading list.
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Wuhan Flu will turn out to be a nothingburger (more or less - thousands of deaths is still a big deal if one of them was you). But since nothing that has ever gotten this much publicity is ever allowed to be a nothingburger, it will forever be remembered as a catastrophe.
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A) so, basically like SARS? B) I pray you’re right and we dodge a pandemic
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Acts of Caine series by Matthew Stover iirc has a similar explanation as to why the world is the way it is, with the fun implication that it is by design
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