Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Stories About Making Amends

On 6/26/25 10:21 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five SFF Stories About Making Amends
 People adopt very different strategies when it comes to making
up for mistakes.
 https://reactormag.com/five-sff-stories-about-making-amends/

After some days of on-and-off thinking, the only halfway decent example I can add is our favorite guilt-driven angst-ridden wizard, Harry Dresden.
I believe there are 17 novels in the series so far, and he spends most of the middle 15 of them[1] blaming himself for just about everything.[2] These aren't book-long angst-fests, but when they crop up it can be annoying.
Tony
[1] I kid, I kid. But it is definitely prominent in roughly 6-7 books in the middle - starting around Dead Beat or Proven Guilty and then pretty consistently through Ghost Story.
[2] To be fair, a very small number of those things are indeed his fault.