On The Importance of Being Timely .....

[mrda]

Reading over old works, it strikes me how "timely" an author must be if he chooses to incorporate aspects and settings of the existing world into his narratives. In the four years of hiatus from directly working on the project I tentatively title ¡Slademaru!, some fairly significant changes took place in the area and city where the story is set,

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[stormyangel]

If it is a future mythology, could not the timeline have split off pre-smoking ban and road building? Just a thought.

[mrda]

Hmm, chronological diversion could work - Shirow did it well with Appleseed. I think I'll at least incorporate the smoking ban as it'll serve my depiction of the overall state of the nation quite well.

Then again, seeing as how improbable some of the events I plan to depict seem, I doubt a diversion would interfere with the programme too much; in any event, I want the 2012 Olympics (and the catastrophic events that ensue) to form part of the backstory.....