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It'd be pretty cramped onboard the 2D Branecraft
by sarreph 11y ago
It'd be pretty cramped onboard the 2D Branecraft
- inopinatus 11y agoYes. It is too small. Therefore: The relevant Hugo winner has you & thousands of others uploading your personalities into on onboard "neural mesh", resulting in everyone calling it the "Brainship". An in-voyage accident due to forgotten space junk sends you somewhere unexpected in space and/or time. During the trip the onboard community fragments and develops in a petri dish of experimental post-corporeal societies that promptly go to virtual war over control of the craft. The Bra{in|ne}boat encounters strange new lifeforms, which by a series of loosely connected plot devices involving convoluted theoretical and/or fictional mathematics, enable one small motivated group on board to seize control and return the device to Earth, over the objections of another group. In the intervening thousands of years, humanity has evolved radically and is facing destruction due to techno-industrial political forces wielding unimaginable power. The inhabitants of the Brainevessel join forces and use the wisdom and/or alien friends they gained during their epic voyage to save humanity, and the warring factions are subsequently reconciled and redeemed. One faction stays behind to help humanity recover, whilst the other goes on an unspecified voyage back to the stars aboard the upgraded Mindyacht. The End. (c) every science fiction author since Homer.
- _AllisonMobley 11y agoI like it.
- taneq 11y agoSounds... Stross-y. :)
- T-A 11y agoYep, that was pretty much Parts II & III of "Accelerando": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
- inopinatus 11y agoI'd actually recently re-read Greg Bear's "Eon" and mashed it up with a bit of Greg Egan. No doubt there'll be echoes of many other novels besides.
- taneq 11y agoGiven your tagline of "(C) Every science fiction author since Homer" I think you pretty much nailed it. :D
- diyseguy 11y agoomg awesome
- sarreph 11y agoHaha, this is a brilliant interpretation of my off-handed remark! I can see the 'Mindyacht' being the superseding craft of choice ;)