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17 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality
“Dystopia is an interesting idea because a lot of times, what science fiction writers are really doing is writing a kind of metaphorical story about the present.”
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- Neal Stephenson
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- 17 Jul 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But if your first choice is to go back to this world of extreme poverty, does that mean that you, too, are a kind of dystopian writer in a way that you’ve said other people have created dystopias? Dystopia is an interesting idea because a lot of times, what science fiction writers are really doing is writing a kind of metaphorical story about the present. I think that we’re in a dystopia now in a lot of ways. A lot of things have gotten better, but what’s happening politically right now, what’s happening socially, is definitely trending in a dystopian way. That’s what we should be, I think, concerned about right now. What’s the thing that’s getting worse socially?…
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