Thoughts on Sam Hughes' Fine Structure
I've been reading some science fiction written by a guy called Sam Hughes1, and posted on his website Things of Interest. Most recently, I've been reading his Ed stories, about Sam and his (fictional) genius flatmate Ed, who builds battlemechs in their basement and saves the world from annihilation on a regular basis, and to whom Sam plays a sort
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The Crashes? Well, the start of The Big Idea could mean it's a vengeful/long-term benevolent semi-omnipotent, empowered by the A-Layer, trying to avert nuclear war.
Where did the A-Layer come from, though? Its connection with humanity suggests that time travel could be involved, I suppose . . . No idea. How long am I going to spend trying to figure this out?!
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He does write a lot about time travel, so that might make sense. Currently, though, there's no sign of nanotech or a catastrophe quite that devastating, so I don't think I agree.
Well, the start of The Big Idea could mean it's a vengeful/long-term benevolent semi-omnipotent, empowered by the A-Layer, trying to avert nuclear war.
And sealed in the Antarctic monolithic dome, perhaps?
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From the parallel plotting, I'd guess that the Crash events are happening on Eden, and everything else on Earth; on second thoughts, Valuable Humans In Transit doesn't quite fit with either of the strands so far - the technological background doesn't match either setting, and the catastrophic event doesn't sound like a Crash or a berserk member of the Line.
In fact . . . Back to the drawing board.:)
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That thought had occurred to me, but there are an awful lot of Earthlike place-names used in the Crash stories - Eurasia, China, Sicily, Greenland, Antarctica. Of course, the Edenites could have used Earth names for their landmasses, in the same way that there are towns called London, Glasgow, Truro etc in North America.
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