Exit Reality. Part 1 of 2. PG.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

A fic set in a AU where the hallucination in Back To Reality was reality. This is a bit of a thought experiment - poking at how characters with fundamentals of the four folk might have ended up where they did when they 'emerged from the game.' Crit very welcome.

"It's a little late for traffic concerns, innit?"

Comments

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you!

Ja, 1984, Brave New World, and a Russian book called We are the best of the totalitarian dystopias I've read, methinks. Not that we learn too well from them.

I remember Billy being referred to as an "alky dropout" somewhere in BTR, but I don't remember how that information was gleaned.

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

I'll have to pick up Brave New World and We, then. Have you read these (http://www.mannazone.org/zone/admin/index.html)? They were my major inspiration for my own Doyle piece.

I don't remember, either, but I'll bet Rimmer called him that during his rant, before he knew who he was...;)

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen those. I'll check them out - in my copious spare time. :p

I looked it up - it's when they're leaving the Game site. Rimmer says, "We've got to find out more about ourselves. I refuse to accept I'm his alky-dropout-yak-coat-wearing half-brother."

[eviltigerlily.livejournal.com]

We is great. Mathematical metaphores, how can you not love that? Although I don't know what the translation is like. I know Orwell was influenced by it when he wrote 1984, though.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

I wish I could remember the translation. It was a good one.