They could continue wandering through the endless darkness, an absence of everything they loved, an endless void of disappointment and loneliness. And if we do, it will be on a scale of time so impossibly vast that it may as well be never. We're still out here, ready to tell Ground Control if we see something. and that's something that humans will always do, right?įirst it was longer than i expected, and then it was over far more quickly than i wanted.
it's really made up of people telling each other stories.
#Future football story full
sometime the reader is held captive by the format, much like a viewer.Īnd the story is full of painful ironies, bittersweetness, small surprises. the premise and story itself are unique and fascinating, and the visual storytelling is wonderful. what would you do, if faced with endless immortality? how would our culture shift? how would our use of language shift? what would our purpose become? what would we care about? what would we lose? would we lose the memory of feeling loss? is this a dystopia or a utopia? so many questions in this bittersweet thought experiment.
we have reached our final form, and lonely satellites watch us and our antics.įantastic speculative fiction, because it is the type that truly makes you speculate. my brother sent it to me, and i wasn't expecting a novella-length story of a future in which humans have stopped aging, remaining our current selves for 15,000 years, all unable to die or be physically harmed. This odd internet story took me by surprise. Oh, and since I couldn't find any helpful length parameters on the internet, you should be able to read this start to finish in 2-3 hours. The sort of thing I want to send to every person I know because when you experience something this beautiful and enriching we all just want to share. Or maybe I'm just sad that there isn't more.Ī brilliant read. There was a touching meaningful emotional climax of sorts as we see the inevitable conclusions of the effects of immortality on humanity, but the story is abruptly cut off with a laundry list of plot hole fillers, a frustratingly vague and cryptic set of ending lines, and nothing else. However, this ending felt cheap, rushed, and confusing. I'm fine with experiencing a beautiful moment without a story arc, and I understand the pain and difficulty of ending online multimedia projects through my own experience. You have to stick to a schedule and keep people coming back. And I understand the constraints of serialized online fiction- you just can't cover everything.
I adore dot-dot-dot endings, ambiguity, and letting the reader explore. Now, I'm usually a person who's fine with this. You're discovering together with 9, and, once you're done for the day, that's it. This is a work that drops you in without pre-explanation and takes you out without a climax or epilogue. Tempted to take off a star for the ending. I loved every minute I spent in the world of 17776. So many beautiful theories and things that came together and made sense. This is one of those really condensed, beautiful reads that enrich you with SO MUCH while being so accessible. This is the kind of work, with the kind of thought, weight, and impact, I can only hope to someday be on the creating end of.
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