Joseph Cadotte is a writer and head of the governed publishing cooperative Old Sins. He focuses on speculative fiction exploring history, economics, and sociology. His work frequently provides examples of:
- Anachronic Order: In two ways:
- Many of Cadotte's works are told after they are over, usually through a framing story.
- To go a step further, Cadotte's primary universe had it's last book (InTheLandOfNod) published and written first.
- Better than a Bare Bulb: A significant percentage of the tropes he uses are lampshaded
- Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Zigzagged. Atheism tends to be nonexistent on a large scale except in oppressive governments
- Reference Overdosed: Cadotte loves to throw as many references in his work as possible.
- Troperiffic: As with Reference Overdosed, Cadotte can't help but play with tropes.
- Truth in Television: Cadotte bases his work on historical events and his characters tend to be an amalgamation of actual people. His science fiction tends to be One Big Lie and his fantasy is almost always of the Speculative Science sort.
