Pessimistic types painted a dark future of trade wars and capital controls.

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For one of the newer Black Library writers, Annandale is clearly comfortable with both the grim, dark future and the style necessary for such offerings.

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The Matrix took place in a dark future, where evil machines had enslaved the human race and cocooned them in pods, plugging them into a gigantic virtual reality.

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