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Genre: Science Fiction
About Sum0Location: Tokyo, Japan Home Region: Age:20 Website: http://www.sonsofloki.co.uk Favorite novels: Catcher in the Rye, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1984, The Great Gatsby, Neuromancer, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Scanner Darkly, The Diamond Age, The Sound of Waves, Norwegian Wood Favorite writers: Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S Thompson, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Phillip K Dick, Haruki Murakami, Yukio Mishima Non-noveling interests: studying Japanese, reading (obviously), science!, playing guitar/mandolin |
Joined: October 8, 2008 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 0 NaNoWriMo buddies: 8
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Brief Author Bio: I'm Matt. I'm on year two of a four year degree at the University of Leeds, on my year abroad in Tokyo. I first heard about the NaNoWriMo in 2007, just as it was finishing, and I was blown away by its strange new concept: wait, you can just write and write and it doesn't even have to be any good? This convinced me that I should really get into writing. In 2008 I made an effort, but essays got in the way and I floundered at ~35,000 words, but it was still a fun effort. I've been writing stories for years in my head, inventing characters and situations and ultra-heavy plasma-powered robotic exoskeletons, but I only started writing them down a couple of years ago, and it's only been in the last year that I've tried to explore new avenues away from the cheap Warhammer 40K rip-offs of my youth. I seem to enjoy writing about travel and using writing as a way to explore places I've either visited or want to visit, or to explore ideas, concepts or events that I feel I want to learn more about (e.g. I wrote a short story set during a present-day conflict between Israel and Lebanon). I'm also a geek at heart, so I enjoy writing SF just to come up with interesting new concepts. Here's hoping the NaNoWriMo is a success for me (this year). |
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Synopsis: Eurotrash Zombies in Space (working title)
In the near-distant future, a well-intentioned visit by an interstellar probe results in a significant proportion of the population of the European Union being infected with a malformed parasite that causes the victims to be actively repulsed by the slovenly and decadent nature of humanity and turn into blood-crazed but highly-rational zombies. Terrified and disgusted, they band together to fight WW3 against the free-thinking-yet-lazy rest of humanity to establish a rational, efficient utopia.
Years in the future, the zombies have been defeated on Earth, but have retreated to conquer the outer solar system. There they wait, building their forces, marshalling for a final assault on the isolated, fragile Earth.
With vast swathes of the Earth's population wiped out in the war, it is now up to a young, spoiled, bratty generation of moody teenagers and 20-somethings training in gigantic Earth-orbiting space stations under the tutelage of the hardened survivors of WW3. The kids don't care so much about the zombie battleship hordes in orbit around Jupiter - it's more about sex, drugs, and orbital rock-and-roll dubstep.
"Eurotrash Zombies in Space!" pays homage to classic horny-frustrated-teenagers-in-space SF series such as Gunbuster, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ender's Game, The Forever War and Weezer's unreleased space rock opera, Songs from the Black Hole.
(yes,I know three of those aren't about teenagers exactly, and one isn't in space, but you get the gist)
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