NOTES ON NOBODY’S CHILDREN
WARNING: This page contains substantial SPOILERS for Nobody’s Children.
NOTES ON THE MINISTER OF TRUTH
One very early idea for resolving the ‘custody issue’ which is, in fact, the entire crux of my novella, went like this:
All this needs some form of resolution, of course – I’m still working on that. I suspect there needs to be a faction of pacifist Mim who opposed the war against Draconia, and who would equally oppose using their children to aid the Earth military; and some kind of settlement whereby they and the Draconians get joint custody. Or something.
Later I realised that this was a bit trite:
The pacifist Mim ought to exist – as a red herring, if nothing else – and should be petitioning for sole custody of the children. But I think it will be rather more effective if the pacifists are themselves a little sinister and scary, perhaps with a disturbingly revisionist attitude to Mim history. To the survivors of mainstream-Mim culture, granting them custody would be just as big an act of culturicide as leaving the children with the Draconians.
This is what Phwmi, the ‘self-appointed Minister of Truth’ (and that’s “minister” in the religious sense, incidentally, although the Orwell allusion is entirely deliberate), and his cult of pacifist revisionists are doing in the novella. They certainly don’t seem to be doing much of anything else.
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