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I just learned the origin of future!CharacterName (or other characteristics like fem!Character, child!Character...) in fandoms! The author explains it's from the way old email were routed, like bob!mathsdepartment!MIT or something like that (I'm listening to the audiobook so I haven't seen it written but that's my understanding of it). I never knew, and I've used characteristic!Name for a long time now!

Amazing, I'd compare it to Proust in the way that it makes you feel what it is to be human.

So I'm at like chapter 5 and I already get how it inspired Torrey Peters for Detransition, Baby, the style and vibe are quite similar!

Someone here said that Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot series was a fictional version of this book, so I'm giving it a try! Very interesting, even though I'm not always convinced by the author's points.

I couldn't quite get into it.

Listened to it as an audiobook as "research" for my documentary on solarpunk. I loved it!