Dystopian sci-fi is journalism

It's very hard to write dystopian sci-fi without feeling like an out-of-touch hypocrite, soaked in privilege, playing make-believe as the world burns.

Dystopian sci-fi is no longer (if it ever was) the imagining of bleak futures as warning, as grim prophecy, to present audiences.

At its best, dystopian sci-fi is journalism, the documentation of present day horrors as testimony.

Readers in the future, if there are any, will appreciate insights into how things got so bad and why we did so little to stop it.

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I get so god-damned excited about this thing

. . .but then a month of ceaseless work crushes me down and sucks out my juices. Happy early Halloween dorks. I'll be looking to steal your candy.