Aegis Sierra status
Revision log and planned changes to the short story
As noted at the beginning of most of the posts when I started, the Aegis Sierra short story was pretty much a rough draft written practically stream of consciousness with little to no editing. I wrote most of the second half while waiting for my car to be fixed. I’m going to replace those notes with a link to this post which will document the revisions and planned revisions. It’s mostly for myself. I mean, this entire substack is mostly for myself; however, I do have a longer term plan of creating a kind of “open source IP” for a sci fi universe and part of good open source practice is documentation.
Current status: rough draft; 1st revisions in progress.
Updates:
Went back to add an earlier reference to the Jeffersonite church. It sort of just appears in the end and thought it could use some additional foreshadowing/set-up. Note that this vague Christianity was planned to be a part of the PlanCom story from the beginning1.
Added some stuff about everyone opposing SCOTUS ruling, but that of course brings up the question of “then why would they do it”? Originally this was just a reference to recent rulings that that went through with majority opposition in the population but those usually had some constituency that approved [See below].
Planned changes:
Play up Miranda Sierra’s Marxist leanings. Negation of the negation in taking down the negation of democracy in the Westphalian state.
Add in tech CEOs as lobbying force behind the SCOTUS ruling allowing hyperquantum computers.
I’ve been re-reading The Three Body Problem and just got to the part where Liu references a RAND report — did a google search and turns out this report doesn’t exist. However, this report does2. I might want to add a reference here with a nod.
My old notes for the book
I think it might be entertaining to add an Uutaruu experiment where they test how humans might react to extraterrestrial contact. The silvery elliptical shapes of the Uutaruu voyagers were always based on 1950s sci fi (and the cloud gate) with a touch of Flight of the Navigator but George Kocher’s report gives some additional references that even encompasses an Uutaruu runabout (conical/cylindrical ships).
