New Reading Project!
Well, I’ve taken part in the Kickstarter for the Tides of Numenera video game. I’ve ordered the game, the sound track, the comic books, the novella collection and a great deal of exciting swag and stuff.
Only, I don’t have any of this stuff yet.
Because the game won’t be out for a while.
It’ll take about two years.
*Twiddles thumbs*
Well, let’s see if I can do something interesting with the waiting time.
According to setting creator Monte Cook, Numenera’s literary roots are in the sub-genre of far future science fiction, where the technology is so advanced it’s indistinguishable from magic. One of his key inspirations was Gene Wolf’s ‘Book of the New Sun’ series. From my readings this ‘far future’ gene is a strange little corner of the weird fiction genre, filled with the surreal and strange. The sun is usually bloated, red and dying. Civilisation is obsessed with strange cults and practices. Layers of history litter the world, but no one knows the full story behind this ancient ruins.
Since I’ve really enjoyed this ‘end of time’ genre, I plan to do a project - reading a pile of these books and writing about them!
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