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The Most Pernicious Misconception About Democracy Is That We Think We Are Living in One

Legendary sci-fi writer Malka Older on what happens when real life increasingly resembles a dystopian novel

Eliot Peper
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6 min readNov 6, 2018

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Photo by Randy Colas

MMalka Older’s new speculative novel, State Tectonics, imagines a radically different world…

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Eliot Peper
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Eliot Peper is the bestselling author of eleven novels, including most recently, Foundry. He also consults on special projects. www.eliotpeper.com