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Abigtreehugger In reply to aegiandyad [2020-05-10 02:01:56 +0000 UTC]

So would that be a, you wouldn't mind seeing some more of my work in this style. I do like the post apocalyptic/ Dystopian style landscape that I can get out of letting the ink and paint do the work initially. I have only put the one of these up as I didn't know what kind of reception they would get.

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aegiandyad In reply to Abigtreehugger [2020-05-10 08:43:47 +0000 UTC]

I have been a fan of dystopias ever since my father gave me his copy of The Space Merchants* after he'd finished reading it.
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Merely searching on 'future' yields more: 
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A thorough search of the SF Fantasy folder might reveal more still more. The reception given to Brave New World and 1984 should be proof enough that dystopias are more respectable than Thomas Moore's 'Utopia', which no one ever reads. Suppose there were a future utopia which depended on vital parts of the past remaining unchanged. In 'Days Of Cain' it does, and 'Time Monitors' have to 'protect' these events against attempts at change or even prevention by rogue time travelers. For those who monitor the 20th Century that means preventing ALL 'non eral' attempts to assassinate Hitler....or to interrupt the industrial slaughter of the Holocaust! In the books one ingenious, conscience stricken Time Monitor tries to do exactly that.
 
This is a long winded way of saying 'Go for it!'

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Abigtreehugger In reply to aegiandyad [2020-05-10 14:26:47 +0000 UTC]

I think for me the single book that caused the penny to drop has to be Steve Wilsons, 'The Lost Traveller'. There were a number of different books that had flicked that penny into the air, but, there is always that one book that resonates with you that really directs your focus. My favourite time travel stories were actually shorts in the 2000AD, I think Alan Moore used to write the some of the Chrono Cop stories, they focused aroung two Chrono Cops called Thursday and Friday. Thursday eventually loses it in one time line and tries to assasinate his granparents, of course it is his partner Friday that has to bring him in. On the theme of Dystopia Michael Moorcock had a couple of stories where Eternal Champions went out to the wastes where Order met Chaos and they fought to push back the Chaos. I think Moorcocks stories of that border between Order and Chaos have been a huge influence on my images.

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