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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.
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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.
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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.
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The point is the protagonist suggests a coherent and aesthetically satisfying perspective on the setting, not that they shape the course of events significantly (though sometimes they do)
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Scifi is a kind of anti-prophesy—the one thing that’s certain is that the future won’t go exactly *that* way. But it isn’t a wild strike in the dark either. Over time, as it’s falsified by reality, scifi reveals oblique truths about the time in which it was written.
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