RE: Hollow
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I have read so many science fiction stories where the solution to this crisis to simply have "humanity" vanish into an unseen world. Where we are all digital personalities, replicants, looms (or loonies?!) that subsist in a sort of matrix / other dimension of reality that sits within a place where we have simply "uploaded" our consciousness.
A quiet Earth with a perpetual computer, covered in data centres where the human race is nothing but a digital record of its former self - a human race where we do not need to rely on flesh, blood, body, but can have the infinite planes of a massive computer system to flourish in.
Its an interesting concept, and I don't know if there are any entire books written on a moment of transition around this - instead - instead , it tends to just "skip to" being a default state for the future.
But I want to know the ugly, difficult choices along the way. Who will smell the last flower? Who will have their road train crash into a kangaroo for the last time?
I tend to write these small snippets of larger wholes - there's so much potential for world building here. In some ways I imagined a Terminator kind of scenario where he'd been sent back to stop the Looms but then I imagined a secret militia tasked to exterminate them before they took over. But then, I felt sorry for the Looms. If they modelled themselves after humans, could they feel like them too - the age old question.
I have a hankering to read some old school science fiction....
Yet the lead up would be fun to write - or maybe just the memories.
"He remembered the time where he had killed his first Loom. He had made the mistake of falling in love with her, a mistake he would not mJe again, although there never would be anyone else."
I also love weaving in Australian things - all the old school science fi was Northern hemisphere. I'm a massive fan of the Australian Gothic so if I can thread that in a little I'm usually having fun.
I am still thinking on how the crap I'm gonna handle my review of Annihilation, then, from where I sit at the kitchen table, I can see a pile books on the hallway table (I put them there because I walk past them everyday,) knowing that I need to pick one of them next.
I've given up on the William Gibson books. My next choice(s) include a few PKD books, so I think I will be picking up one of them.
Butttt I've also got the audio book of the next in the series by Jeff VanderMeer, so I have to balance that demand on my reading time, too.
Thanks for being the only person to ready story. I enjoyed Gibson at uni uni (neuromancer) where I did a great unit - CYBERPUNK: CRASHING INTO THE FUTURE. but haven't got a long with him since.
and Children of Time by AT just got loaned back to me, after I didn't get to finish it the last time I borrowed it, so I think that curve ball is next.
After I do my daily hive duties, of course. Hive is a church, Afterall, and I must worship
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