/lit/ - Literature

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Reposting from last thread since I didn't realize it was already at limit.
>If you’ve already submitted something for the next one, tell us about it
All right so now that I'm rested up, the story I submitted is "And Over the Town." It's a scifi story with Christian apocalyptic undertones. The story looks at Western society in the 22nd century with isolated company towns, the incorporation of Augmented Reality over VR, the Genetic and Nanomachine revolutions having taken place but before the Robotics revolution, the elite class' conflicted views on history's next step, and the apotheosis of a super-intelligence. There is a monster and pic related is part of the motif. I am drawing heavily from prophecy and taking a look at several characters with very different motivations for their beliefs. One character named Tayler does not appear in the story but he is of utmost importance in my next story. If you check the context of his description as an "augur" it tells you all you need to know about him right now.
Technically the short story is the cut first chapter of the novel I'm working on. That novel sequel follows the characters after these events and explores their past before it. That story is still founded upon the scientific speculation (mostly Ray Kurzweil) but I turn even harder away from explaining the science than I do in "And Over the Town". I want something more about the characters and less about trying to survive, but "And Over the Town" has this dystopian feel that gives context to the idyllic world of the novel.

>If you’ve already submitted something for the next one, tell us about it
All right so now that I'm rested up, the story I submitted is "And Over the Town." It's a scifi story with Christian apocalyptic undertones. The story looks at Western society in the 22nd century with isolated company towns, the incorporation of Augmented Reality over VR, the Genetic and Nanomachine revolutions having taken place but before the Robotics revolution, the elite class' conflicted views on history's next step, and the apotheosis of a super-intelligence. There is a monster and pic related is part of the motif. I am drawing heavily from prophecy and taking a look at several characters with very different motivations for their beliefs. One character named Tayler does not appear in the story but he is of utmost importance in my next story. If you check the context of his description as an "augur" it tells you all you need to know about him right now.
Technically the short story is the cut first chapter of the novel I'm working on. That novel sequel follows the characters after these events and explores their past before it. That story is still founded upon the scientific speculation (mostly Ray Kurzweil) but I turn even harder away from explaining the science than I do in "And Over the Town". I want something more about the characters and less about trying to survive, but "And Over the Town" has this dystopian feel that gives context to the idyllic world of the novel.
I am approximately 60 days from submitting that novel to a copyeditor to prepare for publication but I expect delays to kick that well into Spring of next year.