Bowden is part of the story: he claims frienship with William Marimow and John Carroll, towards whom Simon holds grudges against. On fiction: "Art frees you from the infuriating unfinishedness of the real world."
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Cory Doctorow's fictional tale of the U.S. government outsourcing spying on its own citizens.
A story about the Internet surviving more than just a nuclear attack.
Fiction from James G. Poulos speculating on how to truly terrorize Americans.
John Scalzi crunches some numbers (though he admits there may be insufficient data and that he and Cory Doctorow are outliers).
Could it be that those who write about it use lazy clichés (this one referencing a famine that killed millions) in the title of their articles?
