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Genre: Science Fiction
About JessSmithLocation: Melbourne, Australia Home Region: Age:17 Website: http://jess.skyness.org/ Favorite novels: A Song of Fire and Ice (series), Nineteen Eighty-Four, Atonement, Uglies (series), and more that I don't remember off the top of my head. Favorite writers: George R. R. Martin. Maybe some others if I thought about it really hard. Favorite music: End of Fashion, the Last Shadow Puppets, the Kaiser Chiefs, Birds of Tokyo, the Killers, Kings of Leon, and more I don't remember right this second. Lots of groups. Non-noveling interests: Politics and world events, history, psychology, languages, linguistics... |
Joined: Oktober 16, 2005 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 15 NaNoWriMo buddies: 17
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Brief Author Bio: Hey. My name's Jess, or Jessica, and I'm a seventeen-year-old Victorian about to graduate from secondary school. I have exams for the entire first half of November, and due to this I'm planning to do about 80% of my writing this NaNoWriMo in the second half of November. Depending on whether I can restrain myself in the first half, of course. I love and am fascinated by politics, history, psychology, and other related humanities and the way all these things interweave. I like exploring how people are compelled to do what they do, and how states can compel people to do what they want. I enjoy inventing societies to aid my exploration. I never set my stories in the real world because I care too much about what real governments do to real people. Characters are expendable. (Don't get me wrong though; I try not to write unsympathetic characters.) |
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Synopsis: The Mechanical Dead
How do we know what is conscious and what is not?
Many years ago, scientists built machines so advanced their minds replicated ours. Machines that thought and felt as we think and feel; machines with reason, sense and emotion. These machines entered our world as slaves, displacing the poor from their lowly-paid jobs. They worked harder, in worse conditions, for no pay. What could go wrong?
One machine saw the state of its kind and saw injustice. It began a campaign for liberty, equality, and recognition as sentient beings alongside humanity. Government and police crushed the movement as best they could, but their best wasn't enough. The movement for the rights of machines only radicalised.
Humanity's poorest people rose up too. Displaced from their jobs by unpaid machines, condemned to generations of poverty and unemployment with no foreseeable escape, the poor are angry, too.
Violence engulfs city streets. Machines and people alike are slaughtered, children abducted, suspected collaborators arrested, and families and friends torn apart. Humans kill and fight their former slaves without remorse, because after all, how could a machine feel anything? How could a machine be alive?
The Mechanical Dead asks the question, "Should it be right to assume?"
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