1/ Reread Johnny Mnemonic yesterday for the first time in decades. Still so good. Not for the plot, but for the atmosphere of a truly foreign, "one minute into the future" world. Someone asked me recently "how could a cyberpunk world ever have existed?". My answer was
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4/ the radiological bombs used in the Dirty War (1930? 1950?) totally trashed the environment, and people built dieselpunkish steel and plexiglass domes...and the whole world started coalescing. Alt history where aerospace advanced faster, and computer slower... Need to >
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5/ Spend the next few years finishing Aristillus, but this idea is exciting. Maybe I'll do something with it.
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6/ There's no voting in matters of art!
But, also, I want the branch point much further back. North America needs to be multiple countries. Czar either still in power or only recently overthrown. Etc.
This is key for "1 minute into the future / alien"https://twitter.com/Steven_Swenson/status/1363285329998999553?s=19 …Show this thread -
7/ But, also, fission nukes aren't dirty enough. I am talking about saturation bombing w dirty bombs. THAT motivates the domes.
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8/ First nuke in 1869. Nice. https://twitter.com/Mo_Porkburger/status/1363290439013474306?s=19 …
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9/ I'm getting a lot of advice on the timeline for this story. But, guys, I'm not crowdsourcing this. Great ideas! Good creativity! Go write stories!
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