Writing my sniper story has been an interesting project.\u00a0 I\u2019ve recently realized that it provides me with a way to escape from the repressive environment that we find ourselves in.\u00a0 I can imagine a world where people find a way to escape from the Left\u2019s stranglehold on our lives.\u00a0 Science fiction was often described as escapist fiction; an escape from the real world.\u00a0 Dreaming of a trip to the Moon or Mars was a highly enjoyable pastime.\u00a0 I remember as a kid going to the library and taking out the Heinlein juveniles one by one and wishing there were a hundred instead of a dozen or so.\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s human to dream about a richer or more exciting or a better world.<\/p>\n
And when I was a kid, we then got the Apollo program and we really did go to the Moon.\u00a0 Well, maybe we actually will revolt from the Left.\u00a0 After all, it\u2019s been done.\u00a0 The Soviet Union fell.\u00a0 Communism or Wokeism or whatever anti-freedom regime we find ourselves under is no godlike entity.\u00a0 It\u2019s just people who crave control over others to enrich themselves.\u00a0 Surely such an enterprise can be swept away if it ceases to provide the population with a reason to keep it going.<\/p>\n
So, I don\u2019t flatter myself that whatever MacGuffin I invent to carry my story forward; whether it be nuclear powered drilling equipment or fusion reactors or giant lasers; has any special rationale for really coming true.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not really important.\u00a0 Just as the terra-forming capability that Heinlein\u2019s stories are based on, is completely fictitious and the Earthlike conditions on his Mars and Venus stories are completely erroneous does nothing to ruin the enjoyment that these stories afforded and still allows a fan of these stories to imagine that actual planetary exploration is an exciting and worthwhile human endeavor.\u00a0 After all, a manned mission to Mars is something being seriously discussed and planned.<\/p>\n
So, I plan to write a series of stories in a fictitious future where a band of plucky heroes upset and upend the oligarchs who currently run our world and make a fight out of regaining their freedom.\u00a0 As with Heinlein\u2019s Future History, not all of the stories may be aligned with each other.\u00a0 I can always cover up my mistakes by pleading alternate realities in the \u201cmultiverse.\u201d\u00a0 Sure, why not?\u00a0 If Marvel can have multiple spidermen then why can\u2019t I play fast and loose with the future?<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019m not doing anything that isn\u2019t already out in the world.\u00a0 In about two weeks a movie is opening up called \u201cCivil War.\u201d\u00a0 And this movie has the United States broken into warring factions and a ground assault on the White House.\u00a0 So, my stories will be well within the mainstream.\u00a0 The only difference is that probably this movie and any other movies or \u201cbest sellers\u201d that come out will cast the Left as the heroes and the Right as the awful traitors.\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s alright.\u00a0 To each his own I always say.<\/p>\n
So, thanks, to Uncle Bob Heinlein for his inspiration.\u00a0 I\u2019m officially in the future prediction business.\u00a0 But in the words of L. Sprague de Camp \u201cIt does not pay a prophet to be too specific.\u201d\u00a0 So, I better learn to be vague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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