Comments | stanleylieber: SL/fiction 03.31.07 | TOWARDS MYTHOLOGIZING THE COMING RESURGENCE OF COVERT WARFARE

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SL/fiction 03.31.07 | TOWARDS MYTHOLOGIZING THE COMING RESURGENCE OF COVERT WARFARE

Mar 31, 2007 10:24

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cap_scaleman March 31 2007, 18:34:50 UTC

Epistolary alternative history cyberpunk is what I identify this. You do have a quite cyberpunkish style to your stories. I like them, they are good inspiration, especially this one. Though not very "Hard Science Fiction".

stanleylieber March 31 2007, 23:36:37 UTC

Thanks, cap. I don't know that I have a lot to contribute to hard sf. My interest seems to lie more in the way things don't work, rather than in the way they do.

cap_scaleman April 1 2007, 11:34:32 UTC

Yes, usually the Soft SF kind of writing is used when you write more philosophical stuff, like you do. That is what you set out with the interest how things don't work, right?

the_van_dyck April 1 2007, 08:32:30 UTC

These stories remind of the really dark parts of Brazil only much, much worse.
If only Deus Ex was this cool.

stanleylieber April 1 2007, 09:54:26 UTC

Thanks, I would like to write for video games.

the_van_dyck April 1 2007, 10:02:54 UTC

Your story is so evocative and dare I say it, grimy, something narrative driven games sorely lack.

The more high-powered the machines have become, the shinier the graphics but the complexity of the narrative or the protagonists thought process has remained stagnant since Deus Ex.As much as everyone loved KoToR the moral alignment was fairly arbitrary and boring(to be fair it had to be in a Star Wars setting) and nothing has really gotten any more complex than 'good guys are suddenly bad guys' plot which is now 7 years- a lifetime in computer gaming.

I long for another Planescape:Torment

stanleylieber April 1 2007, 09:59:29 UTC

I've written this story four times since 1989. The first version was part of my first novel. The revised draft was used as my entry in the "young author's conference" in the fifth grade. Two years ago I pulled out the original longhand manuscript of the second draft and revised it again. Yesterday I stayed up until 11:00am finishing this version.

stanleylieber April 1 2007, 09:59:48 UTC

Some sentences are unchanged since 1989.

silenceinspades April 5 2007, 07:15:20 UTC

did you post that version? i remember reading this i believe. still awesome of course and i keep on reaching for ways it all fits together. and i'm waiting for plinth to emerge. or spider man. either way.

stanleylieber April 5 2007, 07:18:14 UTC

Yeah, I posted it a couple of years ago. Spider-Man may or may not show up.

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stanleylieber April 1 2007, 22:49:09 UTC

Plinth: not yet. I'm not sure yet if he's going to be in the first half of the book at all.

I still think the Cold War is interesting, in that it had indefinite boundaries. And that the existence of the world was constantly threatened for forty years.