Posted on Sunday, August 6, 2017 at
Epistemic status: opinions and ranting
What does the future of football look like? Yes, it is totally about football; it starts out weird, just stick with it and you’ll get to the football[1].
Well, the rest of this post is about that story, so… spoilers ahoy.
Didn’t expect your football with a big dollop of science fiction, huh? I generally enjoyed it, which is why I made you read it: the narrative is great at progressively painting[2] an increasingly weird world, using multiple short stories to sketch out the implications of the “what if everyone stopped dying?