New Thoughts on Old Ideas
Sep. 15th, 2007 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotI suppose I'll start with the older of the two.
Back when I was in High School, I played around with a science-fiction story about an Andromeda Strain-variety pandemic hitting and how the only person with an immunity to the disease has to endure all sorts of crises before he could make things right. The disease I had in mind was a virus that induced an extremely strong fatigue/lethargy effect.
This week it was announced that there is a viral component to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
In the words of Men At Work, "It's not the future that I can see--it's just my fantasies".
And the other idea?
It would be for a sitcom set in the far future, about a group of people in a living history park playing the part of early 21st Century citizens. The way of life that we know now has been completely phased out or destroyed, and so the following civilization feels the need to preserve some of it. Of course the actors in this park approach it with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
Just thought up the title: "Old-Growth Suburbia".
Maybe it would work better as a webcomic.
FP
Back when I was in High School, I played around with a science-fiction story about an Andromeda Strain-variety pandemic hitting and how the only person with an immunity to the disease has to endure all sorts of crises before he could make things right. The disease I had in mind was a virus that induced an extremely strong fatigue/lethargy effect.
This week it was announced that there is a viral component to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
In the words of Men At Work, "It's not the future that I can see--it's just my fantasies".
And the other idea?
It would be for a sitcom set in the far future, about a group of people in a living history park playing the part of early 21st Century citizens. The way of life that we know now has been completely phased out or destroyed, and so the following civilization feels the need to preserve some of it. Of course the actors in this park approach it with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
Just thought up the title: "Old-Growth Suburbia".
Maybe it would work better as a webcomic.
FP
