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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

#PennedPossibilities 914 — Does your antagonist have any redeeming qualities?

(Current WIP): None whatsoever.

The antagonist is not a person, but a deliberately designed system of intersectional oppression, engineered to sustain political and personal supremacy for an elite minority among the population of more than 8000 worlds. They knew *exactly* what they were doing and it has stood the test of time. Resistance is futile: escape is almost impossible.

(Our protags have a desperate plan ...)

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Woozle Hypertwin
Woozle Hypertwin
@woozle@toot.cat replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@cstross Until you said "8000 worlds", I thought you might have been writing nonfic about today's society. -.-

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@woozle SF is invariably written in the present, and about the present: metaphor and thought experiments are part of the process 😉

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MissConstrue
MissConstrue
@MissConstrue@mefi.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@cstross ooooh, can’t wait to read it. 🥳🥰

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@MissConstrue Tough, it's not sold (or even finished) yet.

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