[OT] [Story] The tide of Progress

[primitive]

Very good writing Dogscoff. Given up on posting stuff at speculativevision ?

Have you any idea at all about a plot ?
There must have been a very good reason for letting a city be domed/drowned instead of just moving it, so that should be explained at some point. Can't wait to find out why

[Taz-in-Space]

Taz liked what he read - and wants more!

Taz wants to know:

Honn thinks about having lived on earth for 200 years and wonders of he will be alive in a THOUSAND years for martian atmosphere generation - Are all humans now so long lived OR is Honn NOT human?

Also:

Was Honn Mars-born?
Why did he go to Earth?
What did he do there?
Why did he return to Mars?
How ...

(list of 1000000000000000+ questions deleted in the interest of sanity)

[dogscoff]

Honn thinks about having lived on earth for 200 years and wonders of he will be alive in a THOUSAND years for martian atmosphere generation - Are all humans now so long lived OR is Honn NOT human?

Yeah, he's human, but immortality isn't a scientific impossibility, you know. Scientists have already identified the mechanism which makes us age, and if we could just switch it off, our bodies would continue to repair themselves/ keep us young forever. You'd still be vulnerable to violent death/ death by disease, obviously, but not old age.

Anyway, yesterday I changed Honn's immortality in my rewrite of the chapter (for plot reasons), as well as introducing the other major cool concept of the story, changing all the timescales and generally strengthening the chapter, then introduced some new characters and a stack more plot/ background in a second chapter, saved it all to my removable USB gizmo and then went and lost it. I know I had it in my pocket when I left work. I've searched my house high and low, I'm coming to the ugly conclusion that I may have dropped it in a shop/ shop's car park on the way home Last night.

By far the best thing I've ever written, and I frkn lost it...

One Last thing: If I do ever find/ rewrite it, I think this might be the story I use to try to get published, so I won't be making it freely available on the web. I'll happily mail it to trusted shrapnellers on request though.

[primitive]

Good luck on recovering your work.

It's easy to spot the talent in your writing big dawg, so you should give it a shot.

If you need a critic, I will be happy to help out.
If its one thing I'm good at its criticising the work of others

[farstryder]

if you need a proof-reader, i'll happily volunteer. SF about Mars is my fatal weakness, and i'd dally with a bit of writing myself. good luck on recovering your story! i know how it can be to lose something you've worked very hard on...

...why, just yesterday, my cats discovered how to turn on and off the power strip my computer is plugged into...

[dogscoff]

Yay! Found it! (Trouser pocket, hanging up in wardrobe, despite having checked it dozens of times)

I'll be taking applications for beta-readers at the usual email address...

=-)

[geoschmo]

Ooooo, dark.