I've enjoyed all your books so far (currently reading Legacies) and appreciate how well you capture the characters. I also like your plotting. Favorite book so far is Miasma.
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I've enjoyed all your books so far (currently reading Legacies) and appreciate how well you capture the characters. I also like your plotting. Favorite book so far is Miasma.
There's a couple more minor references to Past Tense, when Rios is arrested one of the ICE officers notes he doesn't have an UHC card, and a newspaper mentions Brynner Information Systems.
I could have sworn the area Rios was being held was also labelled as Sanctuary District somewhere, but I can't find it. I might be thinking of the Sanctuary District regulations poster that was hanging in the Police Station.
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Found it, when Raffi and Seven are trying to find him, his police profile updates saying he's being moved to a Sanctuary District on the border. So he wasn't already at one, he was just in holding.
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It is unfortunate that background graphic from "In a Mirror, Darkly" turned out to be visible in the finalized TV footage when the figure isn't exactly workable, but it does make me ponder the implications of the Irish Unification and the Bell Riots as an arguable companion to the Second U.S. Civil War and prelude to the Eugenics War and World War III in Kurtzman-era canon continuity.
When the “Starfleet Spaceflight Chronology” came out in 1980, as a TMP tie-in, its references to the NASA space shuttle, Khan’s departure from Earth and the launch of Voyager 6 all felt very futuristic. But we had an inkling we would whiz past 1996 and not witness the Eugenics Wars the way we might have imagined them from “Space Seed”. Greg Cox did a great job of making the Eugenics Wars more out-of-sight in his Khan trilogy.
I trust him to come up with another thoughtful novel. And yesterday’s blogs are today’s podcasts and TicTocs. Who woulda thunk it?
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I've enjoyed all your books so far (currently reading Legacies) and appreciate how well you capture the characters. I also like your plotting. Favorite book so far is Miasma.
Thanks! I don't hear much about "Miasma" these days. Perhaps because it never had a print edition in English.
With the blowup of true crime as a genre over the last decade-ish, I'm honestly kinda surprised there hasn't been some kind of fan project to make some kind of fictionalized podcast or something in the true crime style about the instances of Trekkian time travel to the past. It's the kind of thing that feels right up a lot of fan creators alley.
That term itself sounds like something that would fit right in with Past Tense's 2024.
Doesn't "streamer" mean a business like Netflix or Disney+, though? The podcasterish character in my book is an individual who posts opinionated video screeds online, sort of a rabblerousing underground DJ or shock jock. I'm not sure what would be a good futuristic or timeless label for that.
Streamer is used for individuals (rather than companies) in gaming parlance mostly. You can go on twitch etc and watch someone streaming themselves playing a video game and self commentating.
And let me emphasize "mostly." I've seen individual-streamers who are broadcasting while they work on stuff, painting, knitting, model-making, on the computer or physically, and even ones who just have conversations with their audience (who talk back either through a text chat or being invited in on a call) without any framing excuse, like a talk-radio show that's just about some person's life and random thoughts, as well as more structured productions like call-in advice shows or even live variety shows. The "live" part is the important part of the definition, though, if CLB's character is posting pre-recorded material that wasn't initially sent out live, typically with some degree of audience participation, "streamer" wouldn't be the correct term today. A person like that would probably just be a "YouTuber," assuming they're posting to YouTube (are there any YouTubers who post exclusively to, like, Vimeo? Probably not, YouTube is where the eyes are), but that's way too of-the-moment to be in a science fiction setting.
Yeah, that sounds like a term that would likely sound dated to readers ten years from now, let alone characters 85 years from now.
Has "blogger" been around long enough that we think it'll stand the test of time?
No one reads blogs anymore.
My blog's stats show it's still getting read by about as many people per day as always, though that was never a very large number. Besides, I was thinking more of a video blog, but "vlog" seems like a word that didn't catch on for long.
How about "op(inion)talkpus"?
I did consider "opcaster," for "opinioncaster," but it sounds a little vague, and too much like a coined sci-fi term that would sound hackneyed to future readers.
I guess we never know what will still be relevant years later. Hindsight and all that.
My answer to this ridiculous generalization is the same as Christopher's: my WordPress stats disagree with you.
No news of new novels?
Anyway, in reviewing the manuscript, I see that I referred to the character's "livecasts" the first time, so I changed the later use of "webcaster" to "livecaster." That doesn't sound bad, I think.
Looking forward to a day when nobody reads Facebook or Twitter (or similar cesspools) anymore.
