Re: story idea

Mike Dworetsky <platinum198@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Sean Cleary" <seanearlyaug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Story idea given away as:
>> 1) not practiced enough as a writer to do it well
>> 2) different writers will generate different stories from same idea.
>>
>> Idea:
>>
>> Multiple transcendences, not all pervading.
>> Example: the genome people building supermen while the cyperpunks
>> build their own supermen while the rapture or similar removes some of
>> the populace to a Clarkian Childhood's end.
>> Non of these touch everyone and the poor of the world are missed by
>> most, except that they may be touched by the mercy of what ever god
>> they can find.
>>
>> Sean
>
>Elements of these are found in Charles Stross' "Glasshouse" but far more 
>entertaining use is made of them.

White Wolf's _Mage: the Ascension_ RPG was based on something very much
like
this - including both technological-magic and traditional-magic searches
for
Ascension. And several novels got written based on it, including one
trilogy
that dealt with how they wound up the series (all of White Wolf's "first
generation" RPGs got ended together a few years ago: the werewolves had
their
Apocalypse, the vampires their Gehenna, the mages their Ascension, etc.
White
Wolf then rebooted the games at a rather lower power level with a rather
less
coherent-between-games set of storylines...)

Dave
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