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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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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So you Doctor Scientist tries to extract heat to measure this weird uranium and graphite behavior, and circulates distilled water in there, and after a while the distilled water is massing a consistent bit more than 1g/cc.
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Somebody i read recently said most of the 1935-65 rockets-robots-and-rayguns sf could have worked if there had just been some simple to use fuel with an energy density that meant you needed hundreds of gallons, not thousands of tons, to travel between planet surfaces
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Indeed, you've put your finger on the motivating factor here: adjust the economics until we recapture the gee whiz factor from golden age (i.e. "13 years old") science fiction
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Could be a sidequel to your existing Aristillus work. We get a wet firecracker war on Earth. Some escapees make it to Mars on leaky ships powered by the neo-Cavorite engines. They beg help from the Arist-otelians but there's only so much they can give. Cyberpunk on Mars.
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