Re: the ending — unfortunately part of the takeover of minds the book alludes to has included the total elimination of utopian stories from popular literature, film, or television. For the good ending to work, you might have to write in a subplot where plucky, heroic authors begin telling optimistic tales about the future. Some of them will be stopped of course, but others will take their places and go on writing the forbidden stories of a world where love rules, inspired by mythical figures from their murky past, demigods like the one called Dr King, whose legacy has been co-opted by the evil powers, but who miraculously continues to speak truth to power in spite of it all.
Man, this is gonna be a fantastic novel. I can’t wait!
Re: the ending — unfortunately part of the takeover of minds the book alludes to has included the total elimination of utopian stories from popular literature, film, or television. For the good ending to work, you might have to write in a subplot where plucky, heroic authors begin telling optimistic tales about the future. Some of them will be stopped of course, but others will take their places and go on writing the forbidden stories of a world where love rules, inspired by mythical figures from their murky past, demigods like the one called Dr King, whose legacy has been co-opted by the evil powers, but who miraculously continues to speak truth to power in spite of it all.
Man, this is gonna be a fantastic novel. I can’t wait!