#PennedPossibilities 1157. Tell us a random, interesting fact about your WIP.
It started out as an attempt to update Harry Harrison's format for "The Stainless Steel Rat", and is a heist caper set in a crapsack Regency-flavoured space empire: but it's also a dystopia in a setting that takes Curtis Yarvin's neoreactionary agenda seriously (just add tech-mediated reincarnation via mind uploading/imprinting into infant brains if you want to see a boot stamping on an unprotected face *forever*).
Charlie Stross
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