C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>foone</span></a></span> </p><p>Exactly!</p><p>A few years ago <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cstross</span></a></span> had to put the third novel of a near-future Scottish police procedural trilogy on the back-burner because reality was outrunning fiction in the stupid/insane race (what with Brexit and other shenanigans going on at the time).</p><p>I can't even imagine what an author trying to write something set in near-future USA - or even anywhere in NATO or the EU, really - is going through right now. "Burn your quill and take up day-drinking" starts looking like a *moderate* reaction.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/StrangerThanFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StrangerThanFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reality</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/weirdness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weirdness</span></a></p>