{"id":7616,"date":"2017-08-10T05:55:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T13:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2017-08-10T06:07:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:07:39","slug":"incorruptible-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=7616","title":{"rendered":"Incorruptible, Indeed."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illustration by Kevin Hong.<\/p><\/div>\n

So I wake up in a stranger’s apartment in Montreal, reset routers and flush\/re-register dns caches and do all those other should-be-unnecessary things this piece-of-shit Lenovo demands I do before it spins some internal roulette wheel to decide whether or not I’ll have internet access this morning, and\u2014<\/p>\n

What do you know. The X-Prize people posted my story over on Seat14C<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have to admit I had my doubts. I’m not the first author to decry Mother Teresa for hanging around with war criminals. This is hardly the first story of mine to describe a near-future plagued by environmental collapse and pervasive government surveillance. I’m probably not even the first person to write a story advocating a sort of Final Solution for the One Percent.<\/p>\n

I may be the first one to wrap all those elements into a project explicitly designed\u00a0 to be Hopeful and Upbeat About the Future and actually get it accepted<\/em>.\u00a0 I think maybe I have Kathryn Cramer to thank for that.<\/p>\n

And it is<\/em> hopeful, ultimately. It’s even kind of prescriptive. Of all the 14C stories I’ve read so far (and I haven’t read all of them), “Incorruptible” is the only one which explicitly grapples with an inherent shortcoming of the X-Prize paradigm itself, and suggests a possible (albeit SFnal) fix. It’s not so much cheer-leading as commentary\u2014 which is, after all, presumably what this whole SF Advisory board<\/a> thing is all about.<\/p>\n

Still, I’m equal parts surprised, bemused, and gratified that it got through. About the only complaint I have is that they tagged the story with blog and twitter links to a completely different Peter Watts.<\/p>\n

Maybe they’re trying to misdirect the hate mail.<\/p>\n

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