(Mild 'Zero History' spoilers)

And, to be clear: I don't even think such a Bigend/Musk analogy would be wholly incorrect. Seeing 'Glass Onion' prompted this line of thought, but I'm also in the midst of 'Zero History,' the final Blue Ant book, and the story in which the mask drops (to use a phrase recently popular on Musk's social platform). 'Zero History' is where we see Bigend revealed—risk taker, BS artist, entitled wannabe oligarch.

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I was glad they picked 'The Peripheral' just because the preceding books are *so* personal to me (I've lost count of how many times I've read them, but it's definitely in the high teens).

Now, though, after watching 'Glass Onion,' I have another layer of worry for a contemporary Blue Ant adaptation: I think it would be too tempting to make Hubertus Bigend—wealthy setter-in-motion of plots and foil of protagonists—an Elon Musk analog.

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