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Old 02-17-2013, 02:03 AM   #164
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yeah i guess that's true and if it's polished enough i always thought i could just upload it weekly to a blog or something or just fish it out to publishers, there's plenty around...i mean there's a lot of opprotunity with the internet to get it "out there" but people looking at it is another matter entirely, and making a living at it...well that's even yet another thing

its basically kind of a mash up cyberpunk, gangs of new york and superheroes. it's set in a hypercity with a space elevator, but there's this kind of ring that while the central city seems technologically advanced and fabulously wealthy, as you move outwards it's like going back in time, so the suburban slums are practically 19th century hovels. most of it is of course about economic inequality, free market capitalism, and cultural impact of technological shifts. i want to play around with gene splicing, cybernetics, maybe AIs and definitely want to incorporate the social internet aspect, as well as how information on everyone is available it takes specialists to actually find it. there's also a kernel of an idea about ANCIENT ALIENS that i want to play around just to subvert religion in general (and have space magic). but then i think i might be encouraging that mularkey by actually going through with it.

the story as it goes is about this former merc that comes back to the city and attempts to take control of some of the neighborhoods in the suburbs in the interests of law & order and redeem herself after her ruthless pursuit of the bottom line. whereas the city as it stands is laissez-faire, but under threat of the central security firm whenever it feels necessary to knock back the competition. it's all a rather confusing mess so far. i really want to attempt to avoid a lot of tropes but sometimes its inevitable.

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