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This strikes me as a brilliant setting for an "apocalyptic future" novel.





kleinbl00  ·  4069 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It was called Waterworld.

No, it didn't make sense.

Rising sea levels also play a part in Paolo Bacugalupi's Clock Work Girl.

user-inactivated  ·  4069 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah but if I recall that movie was even more unrealistic than it had to be and also terrible.

That second one looks like something I would read, although I question the legitimacy of the word biopunk.

kleinbl00  ·  4069 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Question the fuck out of the word "biopunk" because it's a stupid word. Basically all the technology in Clockwork Girl is bred because something something energy crunch. You either roll with it or you don't. I recommend "roll with it" as the book is every bit as immersive as Neuromancer was backintheday.

The problem with Waterworld is it cost too much by a factor of 1000. It was never intended to be a big budget blockbuster - it was supposed to be another Steel Dawn. Imagine it cheap and shitty and starring Jan Michael Vincent instead of Kevin Costner and it'd be awesome and you know it.

user-inactivated  ·  4069 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll keep an eye out for it, then. The, uh, biopunk novel.