If I ever actually manage to write the damn thing, I'd be delighted to have you read it once there's a draft! I basically said, you know what, gritty grim cyberpunk is never actually dark in all the ways it really should be. It's always this shallow gritty grimness: an aesthetic only. So I went and figured out all the ways it would really be a truly horrific disaster and... Well, while I was doing that -- with characters who will get their original serial numbers filed off because the setting is so different I may as well -- found a story through it that's about surviving and working to fix things on an individual level and how to transition from that to working on fixing things on a societal level too.
Because I am 1000% done with the "but what really makes you human" and a whole lot more interested in "who profits from declaring certain classes of people subhuman" and "how do we end this class of violence when it's embedded so deeply in so much culture and so easily continued and perpetuated".
But, you know, I -- sort of imprinted on Bujold as a model for my absolute favourite genre fiction: social genre fiction, where there's all the science fiction (or fantastical) elements, but all those tropes are really most interesting for how people bounce off of that tech and how they use it and how that changes them and their society. I love my fantastical or far-flung technological elements, but in the end it's still people that make stories interesting to me.
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Date: 2015-05-06 05:24 am (UTC)Because I am 1000% done with the "but what really makes you human" and a whole lot more interested in "who profits from declaring certain classes of people subhuman" and "how do we end this class of violence when it's embedded so deeply in so much culture and so easily continued and perpetuated".
But, you know, I -- sort of imprinted on Bujold as a model for my absolute favourite genre fiction: social genre fiction, where there's all the science fiction (or fantastical) elements, but all those tropes are really most interesting for how people bounce off of that tech and how they use it and how that changes them and their society. I love my fantastical or far-flung technological elements, but in the end it's still people that make stories interesting to me.