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Old 07-03-2018, 06:57 AM   #27323
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I'm about a quarter of the way through Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, and I'm beginning to wonder if there's a deliberate correlation between trope inversion and dystopian settings or pessimistic tones. For instance, the "Super Soldier" story amounts to saying, "Imagine the technology exists to create kid-show characters as living beings rather than puppets... and then retool them as troops in a shooting war between media factions."

Not that it's a bad story, but so far there seems to be a pretty grim tone to the book.
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