#WritersCoffeeClub 26. How culturally diverse do your casts tend to be?

Charlie Stross

It depends what corner of SF/F I'm writing in? In the Laundry Files I mainly try to mirror the diversity of 21st century British life, because that's where it's set. But sometimes I write SF in futures where the human species is extinct, or *our* humans are extinct and our descendants have speciated. And there's never just one religion or one nation or one form of government or one hair/skin colour or two binary genders ...

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Footnote: the space opera duology I'm currently writing is set so far in the future that humanity has speciated, and there's been a LOT of time for deliberate genetic modification.

One consequence is that non-UV catalyzed Vitamin D synthesis is normal: everyone is dark, for UV protection. (Also, many hominins have a vacuum-exposure reflex that opens the ductus arteriosis and bypasses the lungs, maintaining blood oxygen levels for a few minutes—time to get to safety.)

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