Wednesday, June 22, 2022

 This recent article is so on point for robot-apocalypse tropes I have to link it. 

Sweet Sol System does not have any kind of robot-apocalypse, or any other apocalypse, in it, but rather the opposite. In Sweet androids are symbiotic with the "Pacifican" libertarian nation, and other androids are self-aware colonies for blue-collar "Jovians." However the implications of how they got to that point are central to the plot. 

A reoccurring but only implicit theme in Sweet is "how do we get from here to there?" A common problem with SCIENCE-fiction is that people will conjecture about a distant possibility and not go through all the prerequisites it would take to get to that possibility. Yeah, sure, you can terraform Mars, but before you get to that point you would already have better options than the terraformed Mars result. That's part of why hard-sci-fi is usually set near the present and anything that is "long ago & far away" is filed under space opera.

The premise in Sweet is that modders, coders who make add-ons for video-games, found a way to allow anyone to mod casually, and a nation emerged from that event. So androids went to a libertarian non-utopian ideal instead of a authoritarian dystopia.      



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