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Waiting for the Revolution

Analog/Virtual: and Other Simulations of Your Future

By Lavanya Lakshminarayan  

24 Apr, 2020

Doing What the WFC Cannot Do

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s 2020 Analog/Virtual: and Other Simulations of Your Future is a collection of short pieces that all share the same setting, if not the same characters.

Nation states died in the Population Catastrophe. Happily, for humanity, or at least that fraction of it that matters, the Bell Corporation seized the opportunity presented by global chaos to enforce a new world order, a pure meritocracy with no room for the inefficient, the weak, or the unfashionable. In other words, utopia!


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