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Working on getting these to Publishable Standard.
Taking down for now.
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Allison Zero shows its shape
It's taken a while to get there, to show what I wanted to with Allison Zero. The first two parts were shorter, and the next few were getting a little longer but not too long, I hope: definitely shorter than the Toni With An i parts. I think you should be able to make out the idea behind what's happening in Allison Zero now, if not exactly where the story is going. The general idea of things has been displayed, for some level of accuracy.
There were some early comments in the first two parts about dystopias and gender roles. I said in response to the dystopia comment that I want there to be "reason" to what's happening, even if the culture and society we live in today would disagree with it. Allison Zero is sci-fi. And I said in my blog post looking for sci-fi recommendations, before I started this story, that I was more interested in sci-fi about culture and society rather than technology and aliens. That's the broadest style of Allison Zero.
Allison Zero isn't solely focused on the trans aspect of Allison's life, but it will continue to play a part based on Allison's society. New things will continue to happen, new things will be revealed, but if you read with even a little bit of attention up to this part you should have the gist. It is what it is.
Thanks for sticking with it! :D
Ms Woolly
Even before the drugs…hallucinatory
…in the best ways. Your writing here has a dreamy quality, introducing the absurd calmly, acceptingly.
Even so, the bits and pieces start to fall together. Life on (in?) the station allows a lot of slack, citizens only contribute or work as they wish. My suspicion is that many pre-industrial cultures had some of these elements, especially in places where life was pretty easy (of course, possibly brutal and short, you might end up in a tiger, or falling out of a tree, but many aboriginal peoples spend only a few hours a day in pursuit of survival.)
I'm reminded of Philip K. Dick's work; I mean that as high praise.
Nicely done, carry on <3
Thanks so much
Thanks so much for the comment. It's made me feel very good about what I'm doing. I can't remember if I've read Dick but I know a lot of people who hold him in high regard, so it means a lot to me.
And I use "on" the station like on an ocean/sea-based oil rig or on a ship. It might not be technically correct, or their might be debate about it, or maybe it's correct in some places and different elswhere, it feels right to me. Ifneeds be just treat it as a quirk of the writing, if you'd be so kind. :)
In general I'm trying for a mix of elements and behaviours that would be very familiar to us, while adding in some elements that seem totally foreign, it is the far future, and it might not even be appealing to us. It works for (some?) of the people on the station. There's some thought to it, quite a bit in a few areas, and I have an idea of where I want to get to in this book,* and what I want to deal with, but a lot of the journey along the way is what excites me.
*For Toni With An i readers that's completely different. I'm working away with plotting for that as I write this for the moment. While Toni is probably an easier read, because it's more "real" conversely that makes it a harder "write." As of now I don't predict an end to Toni. It'll just go on, always ticking along.
You've seen his tales, even if you never read PKD
From the wikipedia entry:
“Dick's posthumous influence has been widespread, extending beyond literary circles into Hollywood filmmaking.[12] Popular films based on his works include Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (adapted twice: in 1990 and in 2012), Screamers (1995), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and Radio Free Albemuth (2010). Beginning in 2015, Amazon Prime Video produced the multi-season television adaptation The Man in the High Castle, based on Dick's 1962 novel; and in 2017 Channel 4 produced the anthology series Electric Dreams, based on various Dick stories.“
Dreamy . . .
But also, not. It feels like the world is coming into a different kind of focus for Allison. Time, perhaps, for her to wake up.
I loved this: “Talk to people you believe in, and sometimes listen to people you don’t. People are all we have in this universe.” Put it on a billboard.
But understand, that last sentence will earn you some hate from the dog lovers . . . . ;-)
— Emma