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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 15
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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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 15
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      I seriously couldn’t have imagined this plot in 2007

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 15
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      Actually I can’t imagine it right now either, even though it’s literally happening all around.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 15
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 15
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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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    6. John David Pressman‏ @jd_pressman Nov 15
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      Most people in one of these settings wouldn't be aware of the protagonist.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 15
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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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    8. John David Pressman‏ @jd_pressman Nov 15
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      What I was trying to imply is that most people in one of these settings don't have that either. ;) Authorial perspective gives us the privilege of a clear logic to the setting, but the people inside the setting don't have access to that logic or it wouldn't work.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 15
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      Yeah that’s fair. But at least the protagonist does. Here anyone who acts like they know what’s going on seems to end up with egg on their face 6 months later.

      8:15 PM - 15 Nov 2020
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          At least one person on the planet is navigating this situation artistically. We just don't know who it is yet.

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