The Peculiar Tale of How Yesterday’s Unfulfilled Tomorrows Became Today’s Unrequited Yesterdays
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"Qui plume a, guerre a." — Voltaire
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There are a lot of thoughtful SF writers who are feeling the same unease that I felt three years ago when I posted this. Charlie Stross’ rant, “the Hard Edge of Empire,” just nails it for me. Copies of Stross’ manifesto should be pasted to the lampposts of every colonial outpost in the steampunk empire. His penultimate paragraph is the cry of “aux barricades!” to a generation of writers of socialist realist SF (Stross’ weighty term) who, in the mold of E.D. Morel, bear insistent witness to the misadventures of empire and who demand of their fellow men that society be designed to accord with their better natures and to abjure their predilection for indulging their baser instincts upon the backs of their brothers and sisters.