The Unimaginable
A preview of my November, 2021 Locus Magazine column
6 min readSep 17, 2021
Margaret Thatcher was the least science-fictional world leader in modern history.
Her motto was “There is no alternative,” a phrase she repeated so often it became an acronym: “TINA.”
She was referring to capitalism, asserting that there is no conceivable alternative. It was a cheap, but…