![]() ![]() Like my story When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, the Masque of the Red Death has been on a lot of people’s minds lately, especially since this Guardian story of plutes fleeing to their New Zealand luxury bunkers was published. That every catastrophe must be answered with solidarity, not selfishness, if it is to be survived. They discover that humanity has a shared microbial destiny and that you can’t shoot germs. Naturally, they assume that when they do emerge, once their social inferiors have rebooted civilization, that their incredible finance-brains, their assault rifles, and their USBs full of BtC will allow them to command a harem and live a perpetual Frazetta-painting future.Īnd naturally – for anyone who’s read Poe – it doesn’t work out for them. ![]() It’s the story of a plute who brings his pals to his luxury bunker during civlizational collapse in the expectation of emerging once others have rebuilt. My novella “ The Masque of the Red Death” is a tribute to Poe it’s from my book Radicalized. It’s about a plutocrat who throws a masked ball in his walled abbey during a plague with the intention of cheating death. Edgar Allen Poe wrote “ The Masque of the Red Death” in 1842. ![]()
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