Yeah, it’s one of two with a “preachy” warning in the index.
“Socially unacceptable” isn’t quite what I was going for—more “low status”. Making earthfic always have been unpublishable would have had more ripple effect on the world than I wanted to bother with for such a short story.
It might have had a larger ripple effect, but since the story isn’t that long, I don’t think you would need to spend much resources actually thinking about what it would do.
Yeah, it’s one of two with a “preachy” warning in the index.
“Socially unacceptable” isn’t quite what I was going for—more “low status”. Making earthfic always have been unpublishable would have had more ripple effect on the world than I wanted to bother with for such a short story.
It might have had a larger ripple effect, but since the story isn’t that long, I don’t think you would need to spend much resources actually thinking about what it would do.