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Splinterlands; Splinterlands
Topic Started: Mar 26 2017, 02:20 PM (16 Views)
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Splinterlands

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The following is (from) the Truthout interview with John Feffer, author of Splinterlands.

Mark Karlin: Splinterlands is indisputably a dystopian novel. How do you define that genre?

John Feffer: Dystopias are about a world gone bad. They extrapolate from existing trends to the point of exaggeration in order to serve as a warning. Avoid complacency at all costs, the dystopian novelist is saying: bad things do not go away by themselves. Of course, I wrote my novel back in late 2015, and I didn't expect either the UK to support Brexit or American voters to put Donald Trump in the White House. I expected a certain amount of complacency in both Europe and the United States after they'd dodged these two bullets.

In general, dystopian novels are telegrams delivered to the frog in the pot when it still thinks it's sitting in a hot tub. Do something before it's too late, the telegram says, or else you're cooke
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