/lit/ - Literature

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>pitch 1/???
>a teleoplectic alien thing from the future has invaded Chicago during prohibition and Dick Tracy investigates the Cult of the Machine God
>it's hard-boiled noir acceleration before cyberpunk
>the streets are rain-slicked and gritty and the cops are corrupt two-fisted alcoholics with gambling problems
>the US Government has been unironically monkeying around with time-travel and they have received a message from a future in which the very best and brightest have sent themselves to Alpha Centauri in search of new markets
>they they became possessed with a crypto-libertarian AI or whatever else and are now sending themselves back to the past in the form of radio transmissions which seed the past
>essentially Land stuff as Phenomenology of Spirit
>plus there are sexy decadent aristocrats living in penthouses and LARPing being Egyptian pharaohs
>femme fatales with those long cigarette holders who unironically call themselves Isis and Cleopatra and
>brb going to fap
>okay i'm back
>anyways like Blade Runner but in an Art Deco-inspired 1930s
>and the cops are basically being hacked from within by their own two-way radio watches
>plus pulp action fun and trenchcoats and the rest

okay that actually sounds like something i would watch