Paste a passage from your favourite speculative fiction, replacing all the proper nouns with “Lemmy”. Then I’ll try to guess where it came from without using google :)
Paste a passage from your favourite speculative fiction, replacing all the proper nouns with “Lemmy”. Then I’ll try to guess where it came from without using google :)
The outlook through the window was really a digital view port that showed the outside in real-time, and the curvature of Lemmy’s moon Lemmy was clearly visible from their high vantage point, at the end of the elevator. Lemmy stared at the drifting clouds, barely able to make out more than vague signs of movement, yellow against a yellow background. Neither his eyes nor the external cameras penetrated the thick layer of gas, more similar to a soup than to Lemmy’s atmosphere. When the signal flared up in the comm module of his system, he grabbed the handlebars attached to the wall. Still, ten seconds until the car would detach from the station’s airlock, an eternity. How many of these eternities had he experienced in the past five years? This would be his last trip to the underground complex deep inside the ice of the moon. One last mission.
Haha, sounds like Mass Effect and DOOM had a baby. Is he launching with a chainsaw? Feels like military sci fi anyway – there’s a tone to it, and an action action action pace. Like it’s just another day in the coal mines, but today is the day Lemmy will wake up a space monster. But also there’s a hint that the writer has some grounding in the real – like the fact that it’s monitors rather than windows. Feels like Scalzi maybe? How far off the mark am I?
I’m just recalling the first chapter of Children of Time, and it took a whole chapter to launch an emergency capsule from a space station. Admittedly, the chapter was scene setting for the rest of the story, but there is almost the same amount of action in that whole first chapter as there is in this paragraph.
It’s “Synthesis” by A. Omukai, but you’d want to read “Emergent” first. It’s kind of a Cyberpunk/Urban Fantasy crossover, cloak and dagger style.
Scalzi is awesome. I got introduced to him with Old Man’s War, was a fun series (still need to read Zoe some day).