I've said the genre is Speculative Fiction, but maybe I should go into what that is... it's the fiction of "what if". It includes such 'genre' varieties as Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. I chose SpecFic because the world this story is put in is not SF or F properly, but a combination of the two.
It's a formerly high-tech world that has back-slid to a more simple way of life. There are remnants of the old technology around, but the what it is interpreted by the survivors is a form of Clarke's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Since the society in question is little better than medieval, the ultra-technology that remains functional certainly qualifies.
More specifically, it's a back-slid version of modern Earth, which I suppose lumps it into the 'post-holocaust' SF sub-genre, but the 'holocaust' McGuffin I employed isn't nuclear, but bio-engineering. It maybe a tired meme now, but it was a lot more pertinent in the late 70's when I came up with the underpinnings of the world. =) Besides, I think I've added enough nuance to make it relevant, even today.
~~~Oh, BTW...
I cobbled together a picture based on the concept I mentioned last post, here it is for your perusal.
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2 comments:
"The way you have the story linked on the site makes it difficult to review all your content linearly without having to jump back to the main page and find the next chapter."
I added an index to the sidebar that should make finding the story parts easier, but I'm rather new to Blogger, so I'm still figuring things out. I'll put in a link at the bottom of each part that points to the next part when it is posted... that would help. Blogs mostly are 'most-recent-post-on-top', and it takes a bit of tinkering to get around that basic format.
"Kaylli, Leydon, etc... . Why not George, Sally, John, or Amos?"
The story takes place a couple of thousand years from now, and naming conventions have changed quite a bit in just the last hundred years or so. For example, 'Jesus' is a famous name, but his contemporaries spelled it Yeshua, and if he wasn't so famous, we'd spell it Joshua.
I try to make names that have a resonance with modern readers, while being noticeably un-ordinary. One of my stories has a character named "Rorge", as sort of a blend of 'George' and 'Roger'.
"Even the Village of Redford can have remnants of the old world like metal carcasses of ancient machinery (autos, buildings, tools) converted to something useful for Redford."
Look at how hard it is to find and study examples of daily life in sites that were around in Jesus's time, which is a comparable amount of time ago from our day, as this story is to us. Not much remains from the industrial ages.
For a story that covers the finding of "modern" artifacts, and how such information is restricted, see the short story "The Forgotten Hero", also on this blog. Our museums are full of the rusted relics of Americana from just a century or two ago... when you get to ten times that amount of time, there isn't a lot that's going to be left.
As for your comment on characters, I don't see them as being that stereotypical, but I can probably work on it. There is growth that Kaylli is going to have to go through before the story ends, and that might address your concerns with her. I avoid "Romances" per se, but I do enjoy Science Fiction with a romantic twist, such as in the writings of Anne McCaffrey.
"Tell more about the genetic wars and their offspring. What is the world of Bloodrose like now - preindustrial? Feudal? Why the current conflict?"
Again, "The Forgotten Hero" will give you a bit more about the genetic wars, from the point of view from one of the races created for it, the Lupines. The Malkar are also a genetic war race, but their similarity to humanity is the sole exception rather than the norm.
Mereka is pre-industrial (little better than medieval, I said in a post), and the story has Malkar Lords and a King who rules over the Homan peasantry, which I thought was evident from the text.
I have literally decades of thought and development in this world, and it would be too much exposition to dump it all on the reader in any given story. It is behind the logic of everything that happens, but I treat in stories as if it is the normal state of affairs, which for them, it is.
To do otherwise would be like interrupting a story about our middle America and it's values with a lecture on the American Revolution, and how that served to shape the nation from the European culture it sprang from. Boring, and not relevant to that particular story, which is about things that assume all that, but doesn't need to spell it out... does that make any sense?
The current conflict is the requirement for Redford to have to host and support the troops of the local lord. It's called Billeting, and it was one of the reasons why the 13 colonies rebelled from England. More complications and conflict will come into play as the story progresses.
Oh, and it's Steelheart, not SilverArrow. =)
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