Um... so... the United States election happened. And aside from the epic horror that's been settling in on a large percentage of the world, I have to say, there is the faintest silver lining in all of it. Albeit, a terribly selfish silver lining.
The most recent novel I've completed and am attempting to get in front of editors is set in the relative near future (2054), and I had to come up with some plausible yet fairly unsavory future events for the next forty years. Things like a global plague infecting food crops, unchecked climate change, the expansion of corporations into global powers, the collapse and reconstruction of the European Union, the thorough evisceration of the working class and creation of a national welfare state. You know, stuff like that.
For a while there (with the election of Obama and quite a few of the progressive achievements we've made) I was beginning to worry that this world I'd created was too dystopian to be realistic. We were moving in the right direction for that world to simply not be relevant anymore (and really, this novel will get published one day, but there's no telling how soon).
But lo and behold, people have a way to surprise you. The complete dysfunction of our Federal Congress has been doing its utmost over the last several years to hinder any progress on anything, or do any work at all, really, grinding our government to a near standstill. This works for my story. Not bad, not bad.
And that brings us to today... President Trump.
My crap-ass future is all but assured! Sucks for us, but Damn my story is gonna be relevant.
The most recent novel I've completed and am attempting to get in front of editors is set in the relative near future (2054), and I had to come up with some plausible yet fairly unsavory future events for the next forty years. Things like a global plague infecting food crops, unchecked climate change, the expansion of corporations into global powers, the collapse and reconstruction of the European Union, the thorough evisceration of the working class and creation of a national welfare state. You know, stuff like that.
For a while there (with the election of Obama and quite a few of the progressive achievements we've made) I was beginning to worry that this world I'd created was too dystopian to be realistic. We were moving in the right direction for that world to simply not be relevant anymore (and really, this novel will get published one day, but there's no telling how soon).
But lo and behold, people have a way to surprise you. The complete dysfunction of our Federal Congress has been doing its utmost over the last several years to hinder any progress on anything, or do any work at all, really, grinding our government to a near standstill. This works for my story. Not bad, not bad.
And that brings us to today... President Trump.
My crap-ass future is all but assured! Sucks for us, but Damn my story is gonna be relevant.
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