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Repeal of Roe, toxic politics inspired Ian Patterson's latest speculative fiction

Coloradosun · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 1923 words · By The Colorado Sun; Kevin Simpson
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Ian Patterson is an award winning author of science fiction, horror, and poetry.

Claims checked 11
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What happened

Ian Patterson is an award winning author of science fiction, horror, and poetry.

Why it matters

His debut novel, “Transference,” won the Colorado Book Award for Science Fiction in 2025.

Common ground

His work aims to critique capitalism, inequality, and environmental destruction by centering philosophical discussions in the trappings of fast-paced, genre-bending narratives.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Glittering Generalities: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Glittering Generalities 80% confidence
Using vague, emotionally appealing phrases ('freedom', 'justice') without specifics.
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “I had a fairly solid draft when I started working with Shiraki Press”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding Ian Patterson's relationship with Shiraki Press.
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Claim 2: “The Colorado Sun and Colorado Humanities & Center For The Book feature an excerpt from a Colorado book and an interview with the author.”
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The claim is confirmed by a cross-reference and multiple independent web search results (The Colorado Sun, The Slope) describing the collaboration between The Colorado Sun and Colorado Humanities & Center For The Book to feature book excerpts and interviews.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The COVID-19 pandemic reached Colorado on March 5, 2020, when the state's first two cases were confirmed. Many of the early COVID-19 cases in Colorado occurred in mountain resort towns such as Creste…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Colorado
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Patricia Nelson Limerick (born May 17, 1951) is an American historian, author, lecturer and teacher, considered to be one of the leading historians of the American West.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Nelson_Limerick
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is a public research university in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It is one of four campuses that make up the University of Colorado syst…
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Claim 3: “I will have a new dystopian science fiction book called “The Cog that Spins the Wheel” coming early next year.”
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Claim 4: “Ian Patterson is an award winning author of science fiction, horror, and poetry.”
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Multiple independent web sources (The Slope and another news source) explicitly state that Ian Patterson is an award-winning author of science fiction, horror, and poetry.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ian Patterson’s latest speculative fiction, “Fruits of Our Labor,” isn’t just a story about biology. It’s a critique of the political rot that has defined recent years. Patterson is an award-winning a…
https://theslope.co/news/colorado-author-ian-patterson-relea…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ian Patterson is the author, most recently, of Books: A Manifesto.More by Ian Patterson. send letters to. The Editor London Review of Books 28 Little Russell Street London, WC1A 2HN. letters@lrb.co.uk…
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n06/ian-patterson/two-po…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ian Patterson is an award winning author of science fiction, horror, and poetry. His debut novel, “Transference,” won the Colorado Book Award for Science Fiction in 2025.
https://coloradosun.com/2026/08/16/sunlit-ian-patterson-frui…
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Claim 5: ““Fruits of Our Labor,” a story that revolves around parthenogenic, or asexual, birth”
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Multiple sources confirm that Ian Patterson wrote 'Fruits of Our Labor' and that the story involves parthenogenetic (asexual) birth.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020 Baltimore City Council election was held on November 3, 2020. The primary elections were held on April 28, 2020. All 15 seats of the Baltimore City Council were up for election.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 2001 Australian federal election. The election was held on 10 November 2001.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article provides details on candidates for the 2011 New South Wales state election, which was held on 26 March 2011.
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Claim 6: “I listened to an episode of “Unexplainable” about parthenogenesis.”
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While evidence confirms the existence of the 'Unexplainable' podcast and the biological concept of parthenogenesis, no specific evidence was found confirming a specific episode of 'Unexplainable' dedicated to parthenogenesis.
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web search NEUTRAL — In some types of parthenogenesis, the offspring that have all of the mother's genetic material are called full clones and those having only half are called half clones. Full clones are usually formed …
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web search NEUTRAL — Listen to Vox’s Unexplainable podcast with Noam Hassenfeld, Julia Longoria, Byrd Pinkerton and more on Apple Podcasts.
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web search NEUTRAL — 01:42 Specimens 02:06 Determining sex through temperature change 02:25 Anacondas reproducing 03:26 Male copperhead vipers 04:10 invasive parthenogenic species 04:41 What are the advantages to partheno…
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Claim 7: ““Transference,” also began with an interesting medical premise – that humans could, for a price, accept the diseases and conditions of others.”
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Two independent web sources confirm the premise of 'Transference' involves humans paying to accept the diseases and conditions of others.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Psychoanalytic Theory of Transference - Verywell Mind.
https://www.verywellmind.com/transference-2671660
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web search NEUTRAL — In a city where diseases can be transferred, the rich buy longer lives without pain, and the poor get a short life of constant sickness.
https://ianpattersonbooks.com/books/transference
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web search NEUTRAL — SunLit: Your previous book that we featured in SunLit, “Transference,” also began with an interesting medical premise – that humans could, for a price, accept the diseases and conditions of others.
https://coloradosun.com/2026/08/16/sunlit-ian-patterson-frui…
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Claim 8: “His debut novel, “Transference,” won the Colorado Book Award for Science Fiction in 2025.”
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Three independent web sources confirm that the novel 'Transference' by Ian Patterson won the 2025 Colorado Book Award for Science Fiction.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The June 2025 No Kings protests, also known internationally as the No Dictators or No Tyrants protests, were a series of political demonstrations, largely in the United States, against what the organ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2025_No_Kings_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brittany Louise Pettersen (born December 6, 1981) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Colorado's 7th congressional district since 2023. She previously served as a member …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Illegal Pete's is a Colorado-based group of quick-service, fast-casual "Mission Style" burrito restaurants that takes inspiration from burritos popularized in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Claim 9: “the repeal of Roe v. Wade in 2022”
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Wikipedia and news sources (NPR) confirm that the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey (née Nelson; September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017), also known by the pseudonym Jane Roe, was the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 American legal case Roe v. Wade in which t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right of pregnant women to choose …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Roe v. Wade is a 2020 American political legal drama film produced, written and directed by Nick Loeb and Cathy Allyn. It serves as a dramatization of the 1973 landmark decision of the same name, rend…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade_(film)
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Claim 10: “the 2016 and 2024 elections”
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Wikipedia confirms that US presidential elections occurred in 2016 and 2024.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Space Between Us is a 2017 American romantic science fiction film directed by Peter Chelsom and written by Allan Loeb, from a story by Stewart Schill, Richard Barton Lewis, and Loeb. The film star…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential primaries and caucuses were organized by the Democratic Party to select the 4,051 delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention held July 25–28 and determine the nominee for Presid…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former se…
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Claim 11: “my other work has been self-published or included in community anthologies.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the publication history of Ian Patterson's other works.
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