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The Weather Forecast in Hell: or The history of humans in three parts
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On Burnout, Bureaucracy, and Why My Sci-Fi Had to Be Satire
Why I wrote a book like The Weather Forecast in Hell.
Why not something lighter?
Simple: I couldn’t fake it.
This book was born from watching systems collapse — slowly, stupidly, and with total confidence in their own logic. Humanity doesn’t just malfunction. It malfunctions loudly, while insisting everything’s fine. And in the middle of that absurd meltdown, I realized something:
The only honest way Read more of this blog post »
Why not something lighter?
Simple: I couldn’t fake it.
This book was born from watching systems collapse — slowly, stupidly, and with total confidence in their own logic. Humanity doesn’t just malfunction. It malfunctions loudly, while insisting everything’s fine. And in the middle of that absurd meltdown, I realized something:
The only honest way Read more of this blog post »
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“Q: Who do you think will hate this book?
Readers who need likable characters, happy endings, or faith in humanity’s progress.”
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
Readers who need likable characters, happy endings, or faith in humanity’s progress.”
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
“To those who claim I lack respect for the human race — I will say that, after all, I removed the phrase ‘depressed neurotic monkeys’ from all the places in the book; and not just because I like and respect monkeys. What does that tell you?”
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
“Q: Who do you think will hate this book?
Readers who need likable characters, happy endings, or faith in humanity’s progress.”
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
Readers who need likable characters, happy endings, or faith in humanity’s progress.”
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
“To those who claim I lack respect for the human race — I will say that, after all, I removed the phrase ‘depressed neurotic monkeys’ from all the places in the book; and not just because I like and respect monkeys. What does that tell you?”
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
― The Weather Forecast in Hell
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