An Escape From It All

Inigo Rane is going to be making his debut on here tonight with the first chapter of a sci-fi epic he's been writing.

But before he does, I'd like to preface it with a little tidbit about why he's going with sci-fi, the place where all but a few writers go to die.

The story, which is as of yet untitled, presents the reader with a vision of a Utopian future where politics are irrelevant, religious extremism has been wiped away, science has eradicated disease and has doubled human life expentancy, and every citizen of the galaxy has an opportunity to do whatever they want. Everything in the beginning is an imagining of what I think a true liberal society would look like in several hundred years, until everything that was once wrong with the world re-emerges, proceeding to fuck shit right up.

It was spawned as an "everything is perfect, the dudes get laid" adventure when I was about 13, but since then it has evolved into social commentary.

But why Sci Fi as the medium?

Because you can just make shit up. It's true. I believe that sci-fi is the purest form of fiction. Whatever you desire to place in a story, it can be placed without complaint because hey, you don't know what the world will be like in 700 years.

But all of this gives me (or Inigo or whoever) an escape from what the world is now. Christ, giving people a basic right of a socially evolved democracy required a fight to the bone in our country. I'm willing to bet most of the people on the other side of that argument are just interested in having a job come November. They don't really care about truly helping other people, they just care that they have (D/R/I-Some Fucking State) next to their name on the newscast for a few more years.

In Sci-Fi, you can create a world that has evolved itself past needless bickering and the problems of today. They say ignorance is bliss, but I'd argue that escaping it all is one better.

Expect Inigo around midnight.