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“It is 2020. 250k are dead from a raging pandemic; a private space company is launching crewed missions NASA can’t. A mad president is live-tweeting a painfully slow psychotic break, refusing to leave office. The planet boils.” —Blurb from “2020” obscure sci-fi book from 2007.
Actually I can’t imagine it right now either, even though it’s literally happening all around.
The state of play is too big and messy for my little head. I liked the pre-2015 easy mode release of this game. The reboot is poorly designed and unplayable.
The difference from all the sci-fi I read that was vaguely like this is that there was a plot to those stories, and a cool anti-hero or anti-heroine going around kicking ass and taking names while artistically navigating a spiral of self-destruction.
"Live... Tweeting? Is the president a bird?"
Well Twitter had just been founded so it was a thing
The part I missed was how impossibly stupid it'd all be.
2007 was such a simpler time
Maybe look further back. I feel like Phillip K. Dick and Kurt Vonnegut were starting to capture general feeling of right now.
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