sparking thoughts

[thrihyrne]

Have just had a thought about a story in which some random bits of data (or is that singular? datum?) mutate (as cells do in our body; that whole disquieting element of mutation and is it necessarily good or bad?) and become somewhat cognisant and can see how we all personalize our computers, and latch onto messages from one person to another via the cables/binary codes and try to influence them. This has probably already been done, and probably better than I am describing it now, and this probably has a lot to do with my middle school science-fiction-heavy background.

But perhaps it would be more sellable than the only other non-fandom story I've had in my head, which was about what might have happened by the 1980's if the U.S. had pursued ethanol as a fuel for cars instead of gasoline (which, if I'm worth my pledge to PBS from a couple of years ago, I thought I saw a show about).

Imagine: Intro to story (which would only be a short story: a novel this is not). A woman, dry-eyed, but mourning in front of a tombstone of her son, killed during the fuel wars of the 80's, but not against any of the Arab nations, because we had forsaken that in the 1930's. Instead, the U.S. had found that it couldn't produce enough ethanol on native soil (and perhaps they tried to invade Canada and were savagely and unexpectedly turned back, wouldn't that be a great plotline?!) and so had gone to war against the Soviet Union, but not because of their ideology: because they had LAND. Rich, verdant, blacksoiled land.

Will stop now.

Jen, I love your "whatever" CD. The song "Interstate" reminds me a lot of the indies bands that I loved in college, like the band that did "I'm Going Straight to Hell." Definitely a Sewanee fave.

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[helveticat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, it's a little Atlas Shrugged, ain't it? Like A.S. meets The Road Warrior. Sort of a Philip K. Dick Avenue In for the alternate-universe genre.

this probably has a lot to do with my middle school science-fiction-heavy background...

^ I love when I find out this kind of stuff about people I know from the ringsverse, especially since I had the same background. ^_^ You should be proud; I once had an idea for a story where the US government established reenactment societies for everyone to live in--so you didn't just live in Chicago. You lived in Chicago in 1983. Heck with reality, you know?

:-*

[llembas.livejournal.com]

and perhaps they tried to invade Canada and were savagely and unexpectedly turned back, wouldn't that be a great plotline?

Yes, it would.

the US government established reenactment societies for everyone to live in

I want to move to one of those.

I love it! Y'all's scifi-ish AU story ideas are even wilder than mind are! When I was in high school, I wrote this really cheesy post-apocolypic story about some natural disaster involving the magnetic fields of the earth that caused everything electrical to stop working. And my hero had to make this long journey across the US to get back home. It was a modern day wagon trail sort of story. *sighs nostagically* I'm gonna have to get that one out and reread it.

I have three words for you...

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

... taco lasagna. YUMMY!!!

Thank you so much for sending me the recipe! I made a double batch last night; Mr. Thev and I had it, and he and the kids will have the rest tonight while I haul ass to a 2 1/2 choir rehearsal which starts early. Tres, tres yummy. *licks lips*

[llembas.livejournal.com]

The song "Interstate" reminds me a lot of the indies bands that I loved in college.

*squee* You liked Interstate! Roger Clyne is my prescioussssss. If I was going to be a groupie for a band, I'd pick his. Used to be the Refreshments, now they're Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers.

(will stop spamming your lj posts for the rest of the day now, I think. *grin*)

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

(will stop spamming your lj posts for the rest of the day now, I think. *grin*)

No, no- don't do that!! ;)

I'm loving all of the CDs. I listened to part of the soundtracks one yesterday, and the second one this morning. The track from "Oscar and Lucinda" is beautiful. Thank you sooooooo much for all of the new tunes!!

[jensa.livejournal.com]

so cool to read the ideas ppl had when they were in high school (and now).

all my (never followed-thru) SF story ideas involved mutated creatures (see avatar) or new planets. or versions of this: Starbuck and Apollo (Battlestar Galactica) and their rag-tag fleet find their way to Earth and my town (surprisingly) and Cassiopeia isn't in the picture (prolly slain by some evil passing alien)...ahem...this was high-school remember! wow, that would've been fanfic!

absolutely no moments of wisdom about the human or societal condition. all very schlocky. sigh. I love my schlock. :)

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

absolutely no moments of wisdom about the human or societal condition. all very schlocky. sigh. I love my schlock. :)

I love your schlock too. Notice the new jensa-created avatar??!! *grins*

p.s. have I asked you where the "jensa" came from?