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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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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basically the bombs from "The World Set Free", just unshielded Demon Cores rolling around the battlefield, making everything bright blue and on fire
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And we go to the moon with Project Orion in the early 1900s.
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Maybe Bismarck first experiments in an alternate Franco-Prussian War?
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Delivery might be a problem.
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If you kick things too far back you won't necessarily get the same parallel tech development for any other fields - see how steampunk conceptually bypasses internal combustion. Read Modesitt's "Ghosts" trilogy for a similar take.
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Makes sense. 20k Leagues was 1871...
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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"