What is your Utopian or Dystopian vision of the World?

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  1. CCitizen

    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    The year is 2061. You can write the rest, since my story is in the process of being written.

    How do you envision an ideal society in 2061? How do you envision a nightmare society of 2061?

    Can The Second Civil War 2061-2065 turn a Dystopia into Utopia? Or will it turn a Dystopia into a different a Dystopia?
     
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    HereWeGoAgain Banned

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    The new sun, dubbed 'Lucifer', has transformed the moons of the former Jupiter: Io has become a volcanic hellhole, Europa an ocean world shrouded by clouds, and Ganymede a temperate world that the human race is colonizing. Large-scale interplanetary travel is now commercially viable with muon-catalyzed fusion-powered spacecraft. But humanity is wary of sending spacecraft close to Europa despite its fascinating mysteries, including the appearance of a large mountain, dubbed 'Mount Zeus', on its surface. On Earth, a period of relative peace has evolved between the US, USSR and China, although a violent revolution has taken place in South Africa (now the United States of Southern Africa or USSA): the white population fled to Europe, taking most of the country's wealth with them and leaving the black population to rebuild the economy, which they did in a matter of weeks thanks to the country's diamond mines.

    Dr. Heywood Floyd has suffered an accident and has become a permanent resident on an orbital space hospital. His grandson Chris works aboard the spacecraft Galaxy and has not seen his grandfather in years. At the age of 103, Floyd is chosen as one of several "celebrity guests" to travel aboard the privately owned spaceliner Universe for the first-ever human landing on the surface of Halley's Comet as it makes its periodic pass through the solar system. The craft lands on the comet and the crew explore its surface and its caves.

    On Ganymede, Rolf van der Berg, a second-generation Afrikaner refugee, studies data on satellite surveys of Mount Zeus and forms an astonishing thesis about its nature. He communicates his discovery to his uncle Paul Kreuger, and he is invited to join the crew of the spacecraft Galaxy for its flyby of Europa. As Galaxy nears Europa, Rosie, a stewardess, attempts to single-handedly hijack Galaxy, forcing it to crash into Europa's ocean. Failing in her (unexplained) plan, she commits suicide, and the crew of Galaxy is now stranded on their floating spacecraft. Observing the burgeoning aquatic life forms of Europa, the crew pilots Galaxy to an island which they name Haven.

    Universe is forced to abandon its exploration of Halley to rescue Galaxy. After siphoning water from Halley's vents to refuel, an idea conceived by Universe's navigation officer and advanced by Floyd, Universe heads directly for Europa without returning to Earth first. During the flight to Europa, the celebrity guests discuss the mystery surrounding Dave Bowman and the monoliths, and whether they would be allowed to land on Europa to rescue Galaxy's crew. Floyd follows a suggestion that he simply try to call Bowman on the radio, and that night has a strange dream in which he sees a small monolith (referred to as a minilith) floating at the foot of his bed.

    On Europa, Van der Berg and Chris Floyd take the shuttle William Tsung (nicknamed Bill Tee) to study Mount Zeus. Near Mount Zeus, van der Berg relays the message "LUCY IS HERE" to his uncle Paul. It is revealed that Van der Berg's hypothesis, now proven true, was that Mount Zeus is one huge diamond, a remnant from the core of the exploded Jupiter. etc etc etc
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well if that isn't a C&P straight out of Nature & Science, or some other NASA-sponsored space magazine, I'll eat my hat.
     
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    HereWeGoAgain Banned

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    I hope you like the taste of hats.

    It is a synopsis of the book, 2061. Clarke wrote 2001, 2010, and finally 2061.

    "Heywood Floyd" would give it away to any Clarke fan immediately; if not the new sun where Jupiter used to be.
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well I wasn't far out?
     
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    I suspect for most people, the future is always a dystopia. That's why old people complain so much about the way things are these days and miss the good old days. So for a nightmare society? Simply if current trends continue.
     

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