Day 12

[feuervogel]

One scene rewritten entire. Halfway through chapter 4.

Miscellany:

- 500 years in the future, there are still Michael Bay movies.

- merchant ships who have sovereignty don't necessarily like following the rules of stations, but they do it anyway, so they can get permits to dock and sell their cargo.

- libertarianism really won't work on a space station. Not that I'm trying to make it work; I certainly plan on showing a great libertarian dystopia on Mars, where each dome is its own little feudal state.

Comments

[smarriveurr]

500 years in the future, there are still Michael Bay movies.

Why does this sound like the opening of a pitch for a depressingly dystopian science fiction treatment?

[feuervogel]

Depressing, to be sure. People like movies where shit blows up all spectacular-like.

If I were writing a different sort of novel, they'd be going to see the new remaster of Star Wars in SuperHolo3D from George Lucas XVI.

[smarriveurr]

I know what it is, actually. On top of the actual message, it makes me think of the ad copy for Warhammer 40k:

Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim darkness of the far future there are still Michael Bay films.

Also, in that far-flung future, there are still rabid fanboys making tunics that holographically project pictographs indicating that "Han shot first."

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

You ought to try playing BioShock sometime. Story's about trying to make a libertarian system work on what amounts to a space station.

[feuervogel]

Do they succeed?

Because, really, the "we don't need no regulation" crowd runs smack into the "someone's got to make safety regs so the habitat isn't endangered" problem, and "you can't take away my right to bear arms" runs into "some crazed jackass could put a hole in the hull, and what then?"

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

Do they succeed?

It spoils only a very little to indicate that they do not.

Now that I think about it, you could have some fun writing about space habitats under various systems of government. Like when Ursula LeGuin did her book about the anarchist collective planet. Makes for a decently-sized human petri dish.

[feuervogel]

It does. And I have autonomous merchant ships, so that's yet another petri dish to play with.