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Title: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: okey dokey on January 28, 2020, 11:15:14 PM
Forget trying to plot what COULD happen.
Keep up with the deadly virus in China.
Villages are starting to build walls and erect checkpoints to barricade themselves from outsiders who might carry the virus.
Take notes about what really happens while civilized people feel threatened.
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: okey dokey on March 21, 2020, 01:08:33 PM
I'm waiting (I think it will be a short wait) to see what our new government ID cards will look like.
Will it have symbols in certain places that will allow us to travel beyond our "shelter in place" (although the order has now changed to "stay at home).
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: Shoe on March 21, 2020, 01:21:20 PM

Take notes about what really happens while civilized people feel threatened.

They buy toilet paper.
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: MaxDaemon on March 22, 2020, 05:17:19 PM

Take notes about what really happens while civilized people feel threatened.

They buy toilet paper.

Which says a lot about what we think is relevant...
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: Jeff Tanyard on March 22, 2020, 07:14:09 PM
Villages are starting to build walls and erect checkpoints to barricade themselves from outsiders who might carry the virus.
Take notes about what really happens while civilized people feel threatened.


It's a story as old as history.  Ancient cities had walls and armed guards for good reasons.  Same for medieval cities.  Same for some modern cities:


(https://i.imgur.com/mXGFaXS.jpg)


The details of those "good reasons" vary, of course, but they all boil down to the same thing: there's a credible threat of a bunch of people showing up and causing pain for the residents.

Fun fact: the MC of my trilogy begins his story in a walled city in post-apocalyptic America.  That setting was inspired by the image above (which is the Alphaville community of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in case anyone was curious).
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: David VanDyke on March 25, 2020, 06:49:27 AM
I'm waiting (I think it will be a short wait) to see what our new government ID cards will look like.
Will it have symbols in certain places that will allow us to travel beyond our "shelter in place" (although the order has now changed to "stay at home).

Chip. Back of the hand or forehead.
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: Eric Thomson on March 25, 2020, 06:55:05 AM
I'm waiting (I think it will be a short wait) to see what our new government ID cards will look like.
Will it have symbols in certain places that will allow us to travel beyond our "shelter in place" (although the order has now changed to "stay at home).

Chip. Back of the hand or forehead.

And if we disobey, it'll be bullet, back of the head.  :nerd:
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: Jeff Tanyard on March 25, 2020, 07:06:48 AM
I'm waiting (I think it will be a short wait) to see what our new government ID cards will look like.
Will it have symbols in certain places that will allow us to travel beyond our "shelter in place" (although the order has now changed to "stay at home).

Chip. Back of the hand or forehead.


Sounds familiar.  Where have I heard that before...? (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13%3A15-16&version=NASB)   


And if we disobey, it'll be bullet, back of the head.  :nerd:


Nah, no government would ever do that. (https://imgur.com/CJe8iXe)
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: Eric Thomson on March 25, 2020, 07:23:36 AM

And if we disobey, it'll be bullet, back of the head.  :nerd:


Nah, no government would ever do that. (https://imgur.com/CJe8iXe)

And that, folks, is how North Korea keeps its Wuhan Bat Soup Flu cases at zero.
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: CaptnAndy on March 26, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
I always spend 2-3 hours on the net every AM, taking the pulse of current events, technology, politics, and the writing business. When the virus story started breaking in December, it caught my interest. I was nearly ready to send out my current WIP to beta readers, but a virus based story line kept intruding on my concentration. On January 15th, I gave up, and started writing what has become
‘After The Virus Apocalypse’, which is fiction today, but...

What if a bio-weapon escapes after mutating and the cure no longer works. Suppose it mutates again while infecting the initial victims, goes dormant if the victim -recovers, and returns, without symptoms, to be contagious again before killing the weakened host.

This story opens with a description of how the virus escaped.

Now on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0861GSR81
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: idontknowyet on March 27, 2020, 06:33:58 AM
I started my post apoc books 2 years ago. Gotta say the addition of bombs makes for a much more entertaining read.  :n2Str17:
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: She-la-te-da on April 04, 2020, 06:34:30 AM
Nothing that's happening that hasn't already been written in apocalyptic/dystopian fiction. The run on toilet paper, the lackadaisical government response... All of it. The rioting and police/military presence will be coming. Then comes the hiding, the killing, the government gone totally bad, warlords taking over, women and children basically property again.
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: David VanDyke on April 04, 2020, 06:56:52 AM
I'm waiting (I think it will be a short wait) to see what our new government ID cards will look like.
Will it have symbols in certain places that will allow us to travel beyond our "shelter in place" (although the order has now changed to "stay at home).

Chip. Back of the hand or forehead.

And if we disobey, it'll be bullet, back of the head.  :nerd:

Or we'll be sent to Randall Flagg or the equivalent for reprogramming.
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: David VanDyke on April 04, 2020, 07:02:12 AM
I started my post apoc books 2 years ago. Gotta say the addition of bombs makes for a much more entertaining read.  :n2Str17:

Yes, bombs are a nice addition (narratively, anyway). I've made a career out of the Apocalyptic genre starting in 2012 (not post-ap: I start at the beginning and take you through the apocalypse, which never really ends). Of course, the Eden Plague is quite a different disease, but I ended up being eerily prescient about a few things, such as the quarantining of cruise ships.
Title: Re: Dystopian and apocalyptic should pay attention
Post by: Al Stevens on April 05, 2020, 01:22:38 AM
What if a bio-weapon escapes after mutating and the cure no longer works. Suppose it mutates again while infecting the initial victims, goes dormant if the victim -recovers, and returns, without symptoms, to be contagious again before killing the weakened host.

This story opens with a description of how the virus escaped.
Reminds of Stephen King's "The Stand."