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Tag Archives: The Centuries Unlimited
Some Notes for The Centuries Unlimited
If science fiction is about what we think the future will look like, an alternate history with a Point of Divergence in 1929 (when people from the future arrived bearing technological gifts) should look a lot like 1920s scifi. So a survey … Continue reading
Family Tree
I’ve been working hard on the book I’m calling The Centuries Unlimited (aka Time Trains aka Raj Station, aka Renaissance Express). Posting my progress here, the first thing I’ve completed is the future family tree of the protagonist (plus a few unrelated supporting characters). Knickerbocker Station … Continue reading
How to Profit off Time Travel?
Let’s say you’re the late-21st-century government of India, and you have access to time travel. It works like a train. You create a permanent wormhole back to a particular point in the past, then lay rails through it. Traffic can … Continue reading
The Old History
This is a big one. Using future timeline, necrometrics, this handy graph, the BBC timelines of India,and China,a random number generator, and imagination, I put together a timeline for the world of Raj Station. Note that the establishment of stations (for a train … Continue reading
Giving characters a Mission
It was really easy to write the beginnings of Tyrannosaur Queen and World’s Other Side. Why then, was it so hard to write the beginnings of New Frontiers, Charming Lies, and Junction? Charming Lies’ beginning is STILL giving me hell … Continue reading
well here’s possibly the first line of my next novel
Sorry guys. Finishing up Junction has just blasted my brain. And as if in proof, here’s the first line of my next novel. “The future arrived on a Thursday afternoon.” The Renaissance Express: A saga of crime and family Coming…like…next … Continue reading
The future(s) of English(es)
I’m thinking about The Renaissance Express. Like, a lot a lot. And one of the things that bears some thought it the future of the English language. What will English look like five hundred years hence? If we compare the future evolution … Continue reading
Deep and Bright Green
I had a discussion way back when with labgnome on Deviantart, where talked about Green politics. I think it’s safe to assume that in a couple of generations, all serious politicians will be “Green” to the extent that their platforms include policies … Continue reading
The Renaissance Express
Renaissance ExpressThe train to 1650 is an old model. Twenty-third century auto-modeled bacterial plastic: as charmless as a padded cell. It’s more of a waiting room than anything else, grinding along on its big, U-shaped track, flicking with the speed of nothing … Continue reading