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  • Sep 6, 2025, 12:42 AM

    @spaf Here in Canada, I grew up reading lots of fantasy and speculative fiction to envisioned possible futures - usually about what happened to the United States and the rest of the world. This one never came up. :bl46:

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  • Sep 6, 2025, 3:28 PM

    @JPK_elmediat @spaf

    They say spec fiction isn't really much good at predicting the future. Better at commenting on the present, slantwise.

    Two counterexamples that hit hard today:

    Robert A. Heinlein's "If This Goes On—" / "Revolt in 2100," where a televangelist rules a Christofascist U.S. dystopia.

    Octavia Butler's "Earthseed" books, where a fascist president terrorizes a climate-ravaged hellscape while promising to "Make America Great Again."

    #Books #ScienceFiction #Fascism #Future

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