One of the things that Julian May's Galactic Milieu novels do manage to do fairly well, among the disappointments of the things that they don't*, is convey a sense of the dystopian qualities of the totalitarian paradise that is the GM. The GM is mostly benevolent, mostly extremely benevolent, right up to the point that you don't fit in. Meanwhile ( Read more... )

If this isn't a meme yet, it ought to be.

You: gives me a word.
Me: gives you a sentence of fic.