YMMV / Tharg's Future Shocks

• Hilarious in Hindsight: "The Mainstream" featured a writer who wants to stop writing a series of highly successful science fiction novels because he's sick of the genre, but decides that he can't just have the hero prevail or the franchise's Hive Mind AI antagonists, known as The Clench, win. So, his solution is to have the hero end up as a Cyborg in order to save his life from near fatal injuries and have the Clench assimilate him, whereupon his consciousness takes control of The Clench. This is eerily similar to Mass Effect 3's "Control" ending. Doubly so, considering that his publisher is outraged with the whole idea.