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While swimming in the gym yesterday, I was idly contemplating the Bambi stories. Trying to think of an umbrella name for them. In Bambi’s world, there are humans as we know them today, humans grown in factories and enhanced with technology, and machines put together in factories and enhanced with organics. The latter two have, until now, been referred to as ‘post-organics’. In the pool it struck me--I should call them techno sapiens! I was over-whelmed with my genius for a good few minutes. While I was in the shower afterwards, it occurred to me it’s so bloody obvious I’m not going to be the first to think of it. Turns out I’m not, but there are only a couple of noteworthy hits on Google; mostly Google turns up usernames and record labels and things. So, I’m claiming it! It’s mine. Mine mine mine!
Actually (and in all seriousness), it’s kind of helpful. You get post-organics which are sentient, and those which are a bit too simple to be sentient (they’re called bots, like spam bots). I can use post-organics as an umbrella term for things from the factories, and techno sapiens for those with sentience. (Sapien coming Latin, meaning ‘wise’, or ‘thinking’. Thank you, Wikipedia.)
Terribly dull I’m sure, all this ‘writer’s stuff’. Like the tiny cogs of any craft, fascinating to the maker, dull as Dilbert to the rest of the world.
That said, here’s some more...
I’ve been playing around with a new idea over the past few days. I thought I’d post something up here about it, because that’s not normally something I do. I normally scribble everything into a notebook and save it for no one’s eyes but mine. I won’t go into details, but here’s the basic idea:
I’m calling it Stormy Weather. I know that name’s taken and I need to look into that. It’s set in a city--maybe Brighton, because I used to live there--and the main character is Emily Swan, who’s an old roleplay character of mine I’ve been keeping in deep freeze for a while. She has a deaf dog, and Alsatian called Benito Mussolini, or Beni for sort, and she’s a talented drummer. The basic idea with the story is that every day or so, at night, it rains heavy and hard. Thanks to some technobable, the rains wipe everyone’s memories. So almost every day, the entire population wake up not knowing who they are, why they’re there, what they’re doing. They have to figure things out the best they can based on where they are, what they’re wearing, who they wake up with. Sometimes memories linger, but they’re like dreams. Be interesting to see how people live like that, I think.
If it comes to anything, I’ll see if I can post up some more about it.
Actually (and in all seriousness), it’s kind of helpful. You get post-organics which are sentient, and those which are a bit too simple to be sentient (they’re called bots, like spam bots). I can use post-organics as an umbrella term for things from the factories, and techno sapiens for those with sentience. (Sapien coming Latin, meaning ‘wise’, or ‘thinking’. Thank you, Wikipedia.)
Terribly dull I’m sure, all this ‘writer’s stuff’. Like the tiny cogs of any craft, fascinating to the maker, dull as Dilbert to the rest of the world.
That said, here’s some more...
I’ve been playing around with a new idea over the past few days. I thought I’d post something up here about it, because that’s not normally something I do. I normally scribble everything into a notebook and save it for no one’s eyes but mine. I won’t go into details, but here’s the basic idea:
I’m calling it Stormy Weather. I know that name’s taken and I need to look into that. It’s set in a city--maybe Brighton, because I used to live there--and the main character is Emily Swan, who’s an old roleplay character of mine I’ve been keeping in deep freeze for a while. She has a deaf dog, and Alsatian called Benito Mussolini, or Beni for sort, and she’s a talented drummer. The basic idea with the story is that every day or so, at night, it rains heavy and hard. Thanks to some technobable, the rains wipe everyone’s memories. So almost every day, the entire population wake up not knowing who they are, why they’re there, what they’re doing. They have to figure things out the best they can based on where they are, what they’re wearing, who they wake up with. Sometimes memories linger, but they’re like dreams. Be interesting to see how people live like that, I think.
If it comes to anything, I’ll see if I can post up some more about it.
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