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I want to see a dense-packed dystopian urban setting... surrounded by incredibly lush, dense wilderness. As in, the reason that everything is piled up on top of everything else and people are living stacked like cords of wood isn't because they've destroyed everything and their cities have taken over the world like a bacterial culture, it's that the rest of the world is too damn poisonous and too fast-growing and too interested in cracking open your buggies and eating the nummy human interiors for anything to survive outside of these narrow strips of otherwise-dead land. (I imagine that'd be the way you'd answer the question of how you'd get enough resources in the first place to build a dense urban setting: you're in the equivalent of the Atacama or the Dry Valleys or something, only with bonus high concentrations of minable minerals.)
I have not thought through the logistics, here. I came up with this idea about two minutes ago.
In other news, I recently learned that the Sahara was a fertile region up until about 3000 BCE, and that is immensely cool.
I have not thought through the logistics, here. I came up with this idea about two minutes ago.
In other news, I recently learned that the Sahara was a fertile region up until about 3000 BCE, and that is immensely cool.
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Date: 2014-02-02 08:35 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2014-02-02 09:55 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2014-02-02 10:55 am (UTC)From:I'm guessing this is a non-Lazarus'd browser?
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Date: 2014-02-02 06:55 pm (UTC)From:I was just thinking the other day how cool it is that there are all these places humans can't thrive because they're deserts, and then all these, like, reverse deserts where there's too much life and humans can't compete.
Not quite what you're going for, but I love that The Last of Us is all abandoned human settlements reclaimed by nature, and it is really, really beautiful. I want more green post-apocalyptic worlds.
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Date: 2014-02-02 09:40 pm (UTC)From:...which makes me kinda wonder about how it would work to have, like, a world where there are significant deposits of radioactive minerals in certain regions, which humans understandably don't want to build on, but the plant matter there has evolved to basically radiosynthesize it like plants on earth photosynthesize from the sun.
But yesss. Green post-apoc, green dystopia. Like, some of my favorite fictional works are in your bog-standard Barren Deserts And Shadows Of Over-Industrialized Cities settings – see also the entire Fallout series, and Kameron Hurley's God's War, both of which are unspeakably fantastic – but you could do such fantastic things with the opposite end of the scale, too!
...I kinda want to play The Last Of Us, but money. And time. And the livingroom needs serious cleaning before I can feel like I can sit down and play vidjagaems, and I do not have the spoons or time for it right now. ~_~
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Date: 2014-08-18 12:49 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2014-08-19 08:08 pm (UTC)From:(In truth, I need to go back and substantively rework my Patreon anyway. I love all these new funding models popping up, but they do take some learning.)
Thanks for stopping by!
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Date: 2014-09-19 04:13 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2014-09-25 08:07 pm (UTC)From:Of Men and Wolves is a story I'm particularly fond of; it even got long-listed for the Tiptree Award one year, which was hugely exciting.