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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
August 4, 2016 at 5:25 pm
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Would you guys read a Steampunk novel set in an alternate year 1908 in which a motley crew is sent via Airship to investigate the Tunguska event? Because I have the first chapter draft finished in my head...
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
August 4, 2016 at 5:29 pm
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(August 4, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Alex K Wrote: Would you guys read a Steampunk novel set in an alternate year 1908 in which a motley crew is sent via Airship to investigate the Tunguska event? Because I have the first chapter draft finished in my head...
Would I read it? Omg, I have tingles thinking about it...
This is probably my absolute favorite time period, btw.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
August 4, 2016 at 5:32 pm
(August 4, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Alex K Wrote: Would you guys read a Steampunk novel set in an alternate year 1908 in which a motley crew is sent via Airship to investigate the Tunguska event? Because I have the first chapter draft finished in my head...
Probably.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
August 4, 2016 at 5:37 pm
(August 4, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Alex K Wrote: Would you guys read a Steampunk novel set in an alternate year 1908 in which a motley crew is sent via Airship to investigate the Tunguska event? Because I have the first chapter draft finished in my head...
That depends on how good of a writer you are.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
August 4, 2016 at 5:37 pm
(August 4, 2016 at 5:29 pm)Gemini Wrote: (August 4, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Alex K Wrote: Would you guys read a Steampunk novel set in an alternate year 1908 in which a motley crew is sent via Airship to investigate the Tunguska event? Because I have the first chapter draft finished in my head...
Would I read it? Omg, I have tingles thinking about it...
This is probably my absolute favorite time period, btw.
I imagine it to fork from our time line somewhere in the mid 1800s, such that by 1908, Europe looks more steampunkish than it actually did...
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
August 4, 2016 at 5:38 pm
(August 4, 2016 at 5:37 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: (August 4, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Alex K Wrote: Would you guys read a Steampunk novel set in an alternate year 1908 in which a motley crew is sent via Airship to investigate the Tunguska event? Because I have the first chapter draft finished in my head...
That depends on how good of a writer you are.
That's a very good question to which I haven't got a real answer yet. I've received high praise for my technical and textbook writing in the past, but this is a different animal.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
August 4, 2016 at 5:39 pm
(August 4, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Alex K Wrote: Would you guys read a Steampunk novel set in an alternate year 1908 in which a motley crew is sent via Airship to investigate the Tunguska event? Because I have the first chapter draft finished in my head...
Yeah, I would.
Not really a follower of steampunk but I think that's simply because I haven't really read much.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
August 4, 2016 at 5:47 pm
(August 4, 2016 at 5:37 pm)Alex K Wrote: (August 4, 2016 at 5:29 pm)Gemini Wrote: Would I read it? Omg, I have tingles thinking about it...
This is probably my absolute favorite time period, btw.
I imagine it to fork from our time line somewhere in the mid 1800s, such that by 1908, Europe looks more steampunkish than it actually did...
Some of the reasons I love this time period are Wittgenstein, logical positivism, the Vienna Circle, and the weird fiction set in this era. It's an estuary in which the ancient and modern mix, a fascinating atmosphere.
(And my atheist great-grand parents, who lived through this era and are the only members of my family that I know of who were atheists).
Aside from my own personal preferences though, this does sound like an intersting story idea.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
August 4, 2016 at 6:22 pm
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
August 4, 2016 at 6:23 pm
(August 4, 2016 at 6:22 pm)Expired Wrote: Ok, sanebrain proved to be a disappointment so off to bed.
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