Assertion: paranoia | /r/AtLocation | 1980
Facets:
Source sentences:
text: In the 1980s, paranoia in genre sf may have been slightly in abeyance, though it appeared in recurrent motifs of various sub-genres: the "shoot first, ask questions afterward" mentality of some Survivalist Fiction; the godlike manipulations of various Virtual Realities in novels by Jack Chalker and others; and some of the more sophisticated Space Operas, in which galactic history (including ours) turns out to have been warped by alien superbeings, as in Paul J McAuley's Eternal Light (1991).