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Is Authoritarianism the Answer to Social Unrest?

Is Authoritarianism the Answer to Social Unrest?

Last week or so, I finished reading After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. Datlow is an award-winning editor. I heard about her last year when I participated in the Books of Horror Christmas exchange. (Books of Horror is one of the reader-oriented Facebook groups I follow.) So when I was looking for new-to-me Horror recently, I decided to give one of her anthologies a go. I’ll have more on my impressions of…

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Markets and Economies in Fiction, or Effecting Change through Story

Markets and Economies in Fiction, or Effecting Change through Story

Cory Doctorow wants to save the world. I just finished reading Makers, Doctorow’s (fictional) treatise on the entrepreneurial spirit and the effects of a free (ish) market in a microcosm, or rather, the effects of the entrepreneurial spirit when said spirit ignores the “rules” imposed by outside forces. If you haven’t read this surprisingly addictive narrative, I highly recommend it. It’s a good story, after all, full of love and friendship and enough business and gadget ideas to float the…

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