Jo Walton's, _Half a Crown_ is good fun, but it's not quite the fascist dystopia I'm looking for

            Just finished reading Half a Crown, which is the concluding volume to Jo Walton's trilogy of books about a post-war Britain that's slowly succumbing to fascism. I'm now going to spoil the book (and the whole series) pretty heavily, so don't read any further if you care about that sort of thing.

The book ends with the young Queen Elizabeth goi…