Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Lots of writers have used the sing-songy fairytale style of children's stories to ...
Lots of writers have used the sing-songy fairytale style of children's stories to make serious political points (see, e.g. *Animal Farm*). My own attempt at this was my 2011 short story "The Brave Little Toaster," for *MIT Tech Review*'s annual sf series. If the title sounds familiar, that's because I nicked it from Tom Disch's tale of the same name, as part of my series of stolen title stories:
https://locusmag.com/2012/05/cory-doctorow-a-prose-by-any-other-name/5/
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