The Rebertian Times » story http://blog.rebertia.com All my thoughts that are fit to blog. Which mostly consists of stuff about programming. Mon, 09 May 2011 20:44:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Amateur Fiction FTW! http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/02/01/amateur-fiction-ftw/ http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/02/01/amateur-fiction-ftw/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:57:25 +0000 Chris Rebert http://blog.rebertia.com/?p=75 My friend recently started publishing a serialized short science fiction story on his group blog, and it’s terrific so far. It’s intriguingly titled “Cities of Bronze and Glass”. It’s about a “device” that seeks to find the mysterious “Creator”. In doing so, it buries itself only after making a backup of itself, which it names “Two”. This inevitably leads to a large population of devices (“Forty-Three” is mentioned at one point), all being backups and all trying to find “the Creator”. I don’t think I can adaquately summarize the typical SciFi atmosphere of mystery in it, suffice it to say that no further backstory is given, which is par for the course in Science Fiction. I highly encourage you to read it as it’s quite novel and original. My friend hasn’t finished it yet, so I eagerly await the upcoming parts in order to learn how the story ends.

If you like it, you might also enjoy a considerably longer story from the same blog: “Awakening“. I think my other friend ,the Illuminati Ninja, would appreciate that story, especially considering the vague similarity to his story which was took place on a Pan-Dimensional Waffle, among other settings.

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