[saltwatercowboy]

I love Manna. It strikes such a tongue-in-cheek deal between outsized, sort of ridiculous outcomes that come off as completely bonkers but still somehow make you think.

"Automated management software replaces fast food workers" ---> "Utopians Bought Australia"

Hard to think of other stories that manage that tone. Huxley's Island:

"Self-serving journalist relates psychedelic ethnography" ---> "Magic Mushrooms Cannot Save You From the Forces of Capital"

and Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, maybe:

"Disenchanted immortal undergoes social death" ---> "Cowboy Hats vs. Entropy"

[yencabulator]

Accelerando! https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...