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Writer's Block: Back in Time

posted by [personal profile] boombangbing at 10:55pm on 16/04/2008 under ,
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I'd love to go back to the 50s/60s and see all the technical innovations that people actually got fired up about: the moon landings, computers, the internet. I want to go back to a time when science fiction authors thought that the future was going to be epic and amazing, not full of global warming and extinction. Everything's so... blah now, there seems to be very little that's new and thought-provoking, but then, these things come out of the blue, so I'm still hoping. I know that my English teacher wants to go back to Elizabethan times, I think he finds the idea of it romantic, but I'm far too techie for that.
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If I could choose...

posted by [identity profile] hanuueshe.livejournal.com at 10:51pm on 16/04/2008
Honestly, I'd have to say WWII. My fangirling over Winston Churchill and that obsession I had with Nazi Germany a few years that I never quite got over, all of my interesting relatives were doing the interesting things that made them interesting during that time. Interesting things which I only found out about after they'd died, and I couldn't pester them about it. I mean, seriously, my Grandpa was in the Manhatten Project? All that time he spent quizzing me on the periodic table of elements while I complained that I liked history much better than maths and science and he couldn't have mentioned this once?
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Re: If I could choose...

posted by [identity profile] boombangbing.livejournal.com at 09:50am on 17/04/2008
You'd get on with my dad, then. His fascination with the war is epic and legend in our family. Some of his relatives died in concentration camps, and he's done all this research on it, and writes for French magazine about it. He used to, anyway, he might not anymore.

*wikis Manhattan Project* Wow, that is really interesting, I bet he had some stories.
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posted by [identity profile] reclaimer.livejournal.com at 11:00am on 17/04/2008
I'm a steampunk gal-but the early 20th century steampunk not the Victorian...shite. Gotta try this writers block thingie. Looks interestin.

50's would be hard as a chick unless you're rearing to get married-at least until later on in the decade. 60's would be so great to visit.

/goes to find a Tardis.
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