Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Science Fiction writer, Suzanne Collins
Comment should still be Free - an opinion piece by Hannah Duffey, 11 November, 2025.
Few read this paper, since we keep it off The Cloud. Dog-eared copies pass furtively, ink-stained echoes of The Guardian that died to protect our freedom. That chronicle was killed in a previous decade, after daring to show us what “The People’s Government” can see us do on the Web. So we maintain an underground future by limiting ourselves to the technology of the past. If you’re fortunate enough to read what our typewriter has printed, please share it with a freedom-loving friend.
And pass on the good news. The Monarchy of Scandinavia maintains its independence. They have given the Nobel Prize for Literature to a writer who might be dead. Bending their rules, by explaining some have survived Internment this long, the …show more content…
I was born in The Future, as the generation before me understood it. They spent their childhoods reading “2000 AD,” which didn’t become true. And some spent the 90’s fighting the “Millennium Bug.” Everyone was going to die in 2000, because computers wouldn’t cope when the year “99” became “00”. But the phones, the ATMs, the planes and the baby incubators kept running. So I was born in February 2000, into a world that was weary of forecasts.
A world that ignored the forecasts of Climate Change, until they turned more terribly true than the timid bureaucrats of science had predicted. When the societies of the Equator, of North Africa and then of The Med collapsed in succeeding years, it was natural for Britain to become the 53rd of what are now 55 States. And as Mexico, Texas and the rest collapsed, natural for our Americans compatriots to insist on a “People’s Government.” We needed to protect ourselves from the southern Hordes. And the Scandinavians needed a Monarchy to protect themselves from
Comment should still be Free - an opinion piece by Hannah Duffey, 11 November, 2025.
Few read this paper, since we keep it off The Cloud. Dog-eared copies pass furtively, ink-stained echoes of The Guardian that died to protect our freedom. That chronicle was killed in a previous decade, after daring to show us what “The People’s Government” can see us do on the Web. So we maintain an underground future by limiting ourselves to the technology of the past. If you’re fortunate enough to read what our typewriter has printed, please share it with a freedom-loving friend.
And pass on the good news. The Monarchy of Scandinavia maintains its independence. They have given the Nobel Prize for Literature to a writer who might be dead. Bending their rules, by explaining some have survived Internment this long, the …show more content…
I was born in The Future, as the generation before me understood it. They spent their childhoods reading “2000 AD,” which didn’t become true. And some spent the 90’s fighting the “Millennium Bug.” Everyone was going to die in 2000, because computers wouldn’t cope when the year “99” became “00”. But the phones, the ATMs, the planes and the baby incubators kept running. So I was born in February 2000, into a world that was weary of forecasts.
A world that ignored the forecasts of Climate Change, until they turned more terribly true than the timid bureaucrats of science had predicted. When the societies of the Equator, of North Africa and then of The Med collapsed in succeeding years, it was natural for Britain to become the 53rd of what are now 55 States. And as Mexico, Texas and the rest collapsed, natural for our Americans compatriots to insist on a “People’s Government.” We needed to protect ourselves from the southern Hordes. And the Scandinavians needed a Monarchy to protect themselves from