Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Stories About Making Amends

In article <1040hbd$2qi5k$4@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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

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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.
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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.
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Tony
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[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.
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[2] To be fair, a very small number of those things are indeed his fault.

 Reminds me of a youtube skit about getting your "Southern Card", something
like:
  Well, North Dakota's a stretch, but you've already apologized
three times for things that aren't your fault, so we're just
gonna let you in...