[Report This]Date: 08 Apr 2021 10:44 Title: 001 - "It's A Whole New World Out There."
Very interesting change of pace from your usual fare - although I can recognize some of the tropes in the QD material you are creating now.
Stories in the cyber-realm are exceptionally difficult to write and even harder to screen. Everyone's still kind of stuck with Tron all these decades later. The descriptive writing reminds me of anime from the last decade.
After the Justice League movies (the Joss and Zac versions), it's impossible to read a character saying or thinking about "mother" without hearing Ciaran Hinds' voice.
Thanks!! rbs
Author's Response: Ah, you've discovered my foray into cyber-punk. This story was planned as a first book in a series which never quite materialized. Although perhaps I might return to it some day. I freely admit that quite a bit has inspired this story and anime is definitely among those things. Thanks for checking this one out.
[Report This]Date: 17 Oct 2011 15:52 Title: 001 - "It's A Whole New World Out There."
Finally, someone understands that cybernetics don't require you to be a Borg or a Bynar. I just wish the rest of the story was here.
Author's Response: Thanks for the comments. And yeah, cybernetics in Trek tended to mostly revolve around the Borg or the Bynar. But of course there is a whole wealth of stories that could be told in-between. There is more to Shadow Plays than what has been posted here and I do have plans to continue this.
[Report This]Date: 22 Dec 2009 15:39 Title: 001 - "It's A Whole New World Out There."
An excellent beginning, though a little reminiscent of the Matrix...
I like the fact that this is a very different story to what we're used to with Star Trek fic, but so far I haven't seen anything really Star Trek about it, beyond the term FedNet. I'm looking forward to seeing how you play into that more (if you do) in the following chapters.
All in all, this was an exciting chapter, with some interesting, endearing characters I'm looking forward to learning more about.
Author's Response: It's not you traditional Star Trek story, true. In fact people have pointed out that this thing could be easily written as a non-Trek story all together. But I wanted to play in the Trek universe here and one of the reasons it doesn't feel too 'Trekish' is probably because it's set on Earth, which we didn't get to see much in the shows and movies.
Thanks for commenting.
Date: 06 May 2009 04:08 Title: 001 - "It's A Whole New World Out There."
You may have something here...I have thought for YEARS that a star-trek story like this could rock. I just dont have the writing ability to do something like this...cant wait to read the other parts..good start...I know you can pull it off
Rob
Author's Response: Thanks, Robert. I wasn't sure if I could pull it off myself, hence why it stalled at some point. Hopefully there'll be more of Shadow Plays soon.