Quote:M Fnord said:Thanks for the link.
Quick capsule: About a million posts ago I whipped up a list of the
Venusian monarchs from 52 SA to 1900 SA (or 2009 - 3857). You can see
the list here.
I didn't mean anything by it, just a quick bit of nonsense to pass a
boring day, but... I guess Fun Tyrants aren't allowed to be frivolous or
something, because people have latched onto it.
Quote:Dartz said: ...I'd be interested to know how, in this setting, tech is so restricted that this story works...
The thing this most immediately reminds me of is Charles Stross "Glasshouse":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasshouse_%28novel%29
http://bafeepee.blog.com/...arles-stross-glasshouse/
Given the setting, might you consider putting people "on ice", in long-term suspended animation storage, ('crystalising' them) until the regime finds a use for them? Or, Shinji might be doing that instead of executions.
Just a thought...
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