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Landships sound like the plot of some dystopian future film; ecosteaders fight off the scavenger bands.
by wffurr 7y ago
Landships sound like the plot of some dystopian future film; ecosteaders fight off the scavenger bands.
- RosanaAnaDana 7y agoClearly you've not passed through northern New Mexico.
- Nasrudith 7y agoIt is already - in the my opinion deeply silly book/movie series(?) Mortal Engines. I haven't read or watched them but saw a video ad and thought that it was the stupidest thing I had ever seen. Anyway it is effectively landships except they are massive steampunk mobile cities which grind up and harvest other sessile settlements and smaller mobile ones. I get the extended metaphor involved of colonalism and enrichment by exploitation of the weak and pillaging instead of their own production but even for YA Dystopian it is just too dumb logistically for me to suspend disbelief.
- roywiggins 7y agoThe books are much better than the movie, but it's not exactly hard sci-fi. They predate the big surge in apocalyptic YA and are much better than they deserve to be. They're not less plausible than "Cities in Flight" or "Marooned in Real-time" or anything with warp drives and laser pistols.
- aSplash0fDerp 7y agoInstead of dystopian, I'm surprised they're not calling them stagnant water communities/cities. Cities like Detroit and other areas past their prime did not devolve into madmax scenes, but instead are left with a bunch of toxic funk floating in a cesspool. Definitely not somewhere you'd want to settle down.
- corvuscorvid 7y agoisn't this essentially a 21st century castle?