• cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      It’s fine. Nobody reads books. I’m just a total loser. The book in question takes place at the end of the 21st century, and the flashbacks to earth are bleak as fuck. Basically nobody’s relevant unless they’re extremely posthuman in some way or other, with all associated costs. The people who couldn’t stay employed in the few jobs that still matter mostly retreat to a solipsistic version of ‘the matrix’ while their bodies atrophy away to nothing, in part because reality’s so fucking terrible.

      We don’t have the vivid full sensory computer simulation, or the post-scarcity-but-still-a-nightmare shit hole, but we got all the solipsism.