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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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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Plausible to imagine an alt history where Russia reinforces colonies in California and Alaska rather than letting them decline in early 19th c., Russian America having their own revolution and evolving in a very different direction.
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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"