Me (to my husband, Cam): So, you've read Lock In. What gender is the protagonist? Cam: Well, he's....OH. IT'S NEVER STATED. I JUST ASSUMED HE WAS A GUY.
Heh. Apparently it totally blew his mind :) Now he's wondering how they'll deal with the tv show.
The thing about the world building that struck me when Cam described the story was the MASSIVE IMPLAUSIBILITY of "US president's wife gets chronic illness, said chronic illness gets massive financial support and a dedicated support industry". I have heard too many horror stories about US attitudes to chronic illness, and have spent too much time watching people construct paranoid conspiracies any time Obama does anything that can be seen to be EVEN SLIGHTLY biased towards black people. I mean you guys had a president with polio and afaict people with polio did not get extra special treatment as a result.
I realise it was just the set up he needed for his story but it bugged me.
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Me (to my husband, Cam): So, you've read Lock In. What gender is the protagonist?
Cam: Well, he's....OH. IT'S NEVER STATED. I JUST ASSUMED HE WAS A GUY.
Heh. Apparently it totally blew his mind :) Now he's wondering how they'll deal with the tv show.
The thing about the world building that struck me when Cam described the story was the MASSIVE IMPLAUSIBILITY of "US president's wife gets chronic illness, said chronic illness gets massive financial support and a dedicated support industry". I have heard too many horror stories about US attitudes to chronic illness, and have spent too much time watching people construct paranoid conspiracies any time Obama does anything that can be seen to be EVEN SLIGHTLY biased towards black people. I mean you guys had a president with polio and afaict people with polio did not get extra special treatment as a result.
I realise it was just the set up he needed for his story but it bugged me.