“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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I seriously couldn’t have imagined this plot in 2007
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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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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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Most people in one of these settings wouldn't be aware of the protagonist.
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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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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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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.
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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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