Five SFF Stories About Making Amends

[james_davis_nicoll]

People adopt very different strategies when it comes to making up for mistakes.

Five SFF Stories About Making Amends

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[james_davis_nicoll]

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[ffutures]

I think the 2005 Fantastic Four movie is an even clearer example than Iron Man. Everything that happens in it is a result of their lamentably poor safety procedures. If I were Victor Von Doom I would have sued Reed Richards and co. for every last penny they had for being the cause of his permanent disabilities - it's much easier to play the long game and impoverish them first before going for the kill...

[patrick_morris_miller]

You had me at the artwork.

(For the nosy: I almost never go to Formerly Tor any more.)

[patrick_morris_miller]

Anyway: I'm pretty sure it was Nevyn's massive fuckup that started the whole karmic ball of wax. Alas for me, the author seems to have abandoned Mastodon for Bluesky I Can't Believe It's Not Twitter, so no help there.

[jreynolds197]

Can't post to Former Tor, so:

The Pliocene Exile / Galactic Milieu series is about one of its characters making his amends for killing hundreds of millions of sentients. Takes him about 5 million years to do it.

[dragoness_e]

You beat me to it! I was going to mention this.

[kraig]

re: Carrie - King doesn't believe in foreshadowing so much as fore-thunderstorms-and-tornadoes-and-hurricanes-and-floodsing. I hate it but I keep going back for more, so I guess I don't hate it *that* much.

[magedragonfire]

Oh, hey, I picked up that edition of Daggerspell at the local used book store not too long ago.

[bolindbergh]

The title Making Amends demands the subtitle The Reproductive Habits of American Cartoonists.

[jbwoodford]

Subtle. I like it.