суббота, 18 октября 2008 г.

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So, that poll I did a few weeks ago? Iapos;m finally comfortable enough with the sample size. It looks like Iapos;m doing the steampunk novel.

Iapos;ve got a bit of the world sketched out already- this is good, because thereapos;s a lot of it. The basic idea is that it is an alternate history where the dark ages were not quite as severe and widespread. The Roman Empire still fell, of course, but the religious fanaticism never really took root and caused everything to be set back for a couple centuries, so the Industrial Revolution came around a little sooner.

The bad news is that the ruling class controls nearly all the science and technology powers, and the peasants, while somewhat enlightened peasants, are still kind of screwed. And with no one to stop the nobility from poking at the laws of nature until she pokes back, we get...

MAD SCIENCE

*ahem*

Oh, and it gets worse: the Europeans ran across the Americas (in zeppelins rather than ships, but I digress), but they were not open to colonization as the indigenous peoples had their own advanced civilizations, complete with armies. One should never ask a Spaniard about the Battle of Tula. The American empires trade as equals with the European powers, and while there is some emigration (especially in England, as theyapos;ve still managed to conquer Australia), there isnapos;t nearly as much as a pressure-release valve as there was in our world.

So basically, weapos;ve got all of Europe sitting on a powder keg of peasant unrest and mad science with no outlet. And to the great, great misfortune of just about everyone, Otto von Bismarck still exists in this universe, and he comes to power right on schedule. Now, what weapos;ve got here are the makings of a war, and this one is going to be a doozie.

Our story starts in 1870, on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War, just west of Lauterbourg, France. Itapos;s a story of boy-meets-girl, boy-is-part-of-invading-army-and-sacks-girls-town, girl-joins-counterinvasion-movement, and boy-has-to-keep-secret-who-he-is-because-he-really-likes-this-girl. Plus genetically engineered super-spies. And ray guns. And did we mention heapos;s nobility as well?

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