"SF Worldbuilding" Topic
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Tango01 | 09 Jul 2020 8:41 p.m. PST |
"Okay, something a little different this time. Part of one unit I'm doing at the moment requires us to do an adaption of a ancient Greek or Roman myth/legend, and but it up in the public domain. Being the person I am there was only one choice, the Trojan War in space. I said it was a little different. Anyway, I think it turned out OK so I decided to put it up here. See if you can spot the parallels and changes between it and the original myth. Loosely speaking the original could be taken to the version written by Apollodorus, although much of it was based on memory rather than on a text in front of me. Humanity spread to the stars, but some further and faster than others. While the bulk of humanity remained much as it ever had, a small group set aside old conceptions of humanity and made themselves immortal. They called themselves Olympians, and in time were almost godlike in power and knowledge. Some of this knowledge they shared with the rest of the human race, in particular a life extension treatment. The treatment was a retrovirus, a engineered nano-machine that mimicked a part of the host's body until it had entered every cell, inserted its ubiquitous code into the DNA of every replicating chain and banished old age and weakness forever. It would not grant immortality, it could only stay ageing; it was enough. Disease, accident, or the mind's fatigue could still claim life, and did. But it gave them time, time to rule well and justly. Not just on their own worlds, but in every star system that harboured life…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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USAFpilot | 09 Jul 2020 8:57 p.m. PST |
Sounds a little like the sf novel "Illium" by Dan Simmons. It's basically the Trojan war as imagined by Homer in the "Iliad" but fought on a future Mars. |
Tango01 | 10 Jul 2020 12:16 p.m. PST |
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Der Krieg Geist | 10 Jul 2020 10:02 p.m. PST |
USAFpilot, It seems that way to you because if you read the blogin the link , the synopsis is nearly word for word the synopsis of Dan Simmons "Illium" 2003 first edition. This guys blog is dated 2015. Maybe he thought no one would notice he coped it wholesale, or thinks he has plausible deniability. Which I would find laughable. :D |
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