io9 has a good post on how fictional dystopias tend to ignore certain aspects of revolutionary movements: 10 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias Ignore.
They're wrong: not every creator ignores such issues.
Just the popular ones.
I've been exploring several of them in Rebel Angels, which uses the original revolution as a platform to explore the phenomenon in general.
And I played with it even earlier, in Nil: A Land Beyond Belief.
So there.
They're wrong: not every creator ignores such issues.
Just the popular ones.
I've been exploring several of them in Rebel Angels, which uses the original revolution as a platform to explore the phenomenon in general.
And I played with it even earlier, in Nil: A Land Beyond Belief.
So there.
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