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http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-crazy-years.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-craz... > [...] > one techniq
by BlueTemplar 2y ago
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-crazy-years.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-craz...
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> one technique that suited me well back then was to take a fire-hose of ideas and spray them at the reader until they drowned. Nothing gives you a sense of an immersive future like having the entire world dumped on your head simultaneously, after all.
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> Now we are living in 2018, round the time I envisaged [the first chapter of Accelerando] taking place when I was writing that novelette, and the joke's on me: reality is outstripping my own ability to keep coming up with insane shit to provide texture to my fiction.
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See also :
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/04/reality-keeps-stealing-my-line.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/04/reality...
And maybe :
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/08/dead-plots.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/08/dead-pl...