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The last little Gamma World snippet I've written so far. This one takes a bit of a turn, but it's sort of the origin of another character I've had cooking for quite some time.
Nothing furry about it, more wanted to get a handle on how the setting felt during the time everything fell apart. I have to admit, part of me loves this stuff -- trapped in a room while the world falls down outside, frightened out of your mind because everything about your environment is suddenly unknown. It's one of the most terrifying things I could imagine happening, to be honest.
Anyway, 1963 words.
Nothing furry about it, more wanted to get a handle on how the setting felt during the time everything fell apart. I have to admit, part of me loves this stuff -- trapped in a room while the world falls down outside, frightened out of your mind because everything about your environment is suddenly unknown. It's one of the most terrifying things I could imagine happening, to be honest.
Anyway, 1963 words.
Category Story / Human
Species Mammal (Other)
Size 50 x 50px
File Size 9.6 kB
Some of my favorite stuff focuses on what happens leading right up to the apocalypse, or what happens during. If you haven't seen "Last Night" I *highly* recommend that. It's one of my favorite movies, and it sticks with you a long time after you see it. It's the quietest apocalyptic movie I've ever seen. :)
That's was unsettling, but very gripping. Nice job making the end of the world sound so depressingly slow and devoid of any definite epic finale. I highly believe, as negative as it may sound, that the real apocalypse will be more like this than any of the big, full on explosive ends that movies are so fond of portraying.
I agree! It might be purely for selfish reasons, but I love apocalypse story that give the characters room to face their demise, reflect on their lives and deal with death.
Children of Men is a great example of what happens when people know the end is coming, and so is Last Night. There are a few books that have done a good job of it, too, but if you can recommend any more I'd greatly appreciate it. ;) I can't get enough of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. ;)
Children of Men is a great example of what happens when people know the end is coming, and so is Last Night. There are a few books that have done a good job of it, too, but if you can recommend any more I'd greatly appreciate it. ;) I can't get enough of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. ;)
Only other real post-apocalyptic stories that really stuck with me (unless you count cyber-punk since that usually inhabits a "towards the end of the world" setting) were The Chrysalids and of A Boy and His Dog. Former because it focused on many of the same queries and cynicism I have towards religion, the latter because of how shamelessly apathetic it is towards the notion of total economic, government, and all out ecological collapse. Plus it also inspired the Fallout games.
Thank you!
I wanted to make something that was grounded in reality at least at first....but the idea of the gamma storm simply mutating life on Earth is a pretty big conceit. In reality, it would fry everything on the planet, ending life as we know it. Really, no chance of survival. And since they travel as fast as light we wouldn't know about it until it was pretty much here.
Gamma storms are one of the most frightening things in the universe. ;)
I'm glad you liked it, at any rate! I hope I can keep up that tension the more I get into the story of our nameless protagonist.
I wanted to make something that was grounded in reality at least at first....but the idea of the gamma storm simply mutating life on Earth is a pretty big conceit. In reality, it would fry everything on the planet, ending life as we know it. Really, no chance of survival. And since they travel as fast as light we wouldn't know about it until it was pretty much here.
Gamma storms are one of the most frightening things in the universe. ;)
I'm glad you liked it, at any rate! I hope I can keep up that tension the more I get into the story of our nameless protagonist.
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