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A young<\/strong> office worker sees his life deconstructed by an online personality test; nanobots transform the victim of a rape into an eternal virgin; a clone discusses his clothing with his “father”; a child describes his journey across a planet that’s become a vast mausoleum; a reincarnated Albrecht D\u00fcrer seduces a museum curator’s wife… How do we conserve a thread of humanity in a world deformed by technological phobia and millennial angst?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before there was Black Mirror, there was Soft Apocalypse. Simultaneously familiar and strange, these twelve short stories trace the air-conditioned nightmares borne of lives increasingly mediated by science and information. And one of them, The Nuclear Train<\/a>, was adapted for Channel 4 television by the film-maker Dan Saul in 2002. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A young office worker sees his life deconstructed by an online personality test; nanobots transform the victim of a rape into an eternal virgin; a clone discusses his clothing with his “father”; a child describes his journey across a planet that’s become a vast mausoleum; a reincarnated Albrecht D\u00fcrer seduces a museum curator’s wife… How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}