[Writingworkshop] More stories - Star Leviathan

[Neale Morison]

Adam, it seems my response to Star Leviathan went in the great bit 
bucket when the previous incarnation of the writing workshop stopped 
workshopping.
You've managed to maintain the same feeling with this one of making the 
hi-tech references fanciful and comforting, in keeping with the general 
bedtime story style. There's a lovely gentle humor in the contrast 
between the nineteenth century colonial envelope of the Kipling and the 
mid twentieth space race nostalgia. I do wish I had me one of them 
interstellar hydrogen ramjets.
I don't know if you ever came across a game called Red Alert 2, but in a 
somewhat similar way it drew humour out of extrapolating technology 
forward from a point well in the past, the sixties cold war era, to 
create wacky weapons, crazy logic and wry political comment. Fun, 
sophisticated game, very cheap to buy now.
Please send more.


Adam Holland wrote:
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>
> On Feb 1, 2008 9:26 PM, Neale Morison <nmorison at mit.edu 
> <mailto:nmorison at mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     . It's all wonderful nostalgia, even set in the future.
>
>
> that's exactly the idea.  Future history.
>
> you know how someone, (Heinlein?)  said that a good SF novel was one 
> that an inhabitant of the time and place about which you were writing 
> would think was contemporary fiction?
>
> I'm striving for the same thing, just for a folktale / fairytale 
> instead of a novel.
>
> Since you've been so positive, I'll send you another.
>  When I send all of them, I'll have to write more. ;)
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