I also asked the Author of the Spiral Arm, Peter Boland
why he writes the genre he does.
Here's what he had to say.
The future ain’t what
it used to be.
by
Peter Boland
Phew, it’s hard work writing about the future. Much harder
than writing about the past or the present. Writing’s difficult enough at the
best of times but when you have to invent a believable futuristic world, that’s
quite a big ask. I’m jealous of historical and contemporary novelists. Okay,
I’m sure they have to do a ton of research, but I bet they don’t spend days
thinking up futuristic gizmos. And it’s getting harder. You can’t just stick in
flying cars and jetpacks. People want to see something new.
Today, some cybernetics are already starting to creep into
society. So for the Spiral Arm it wasn’t a massive leap to think that in the
future, the internet would be implanted in our hands in the form of a ‘com chip’.
The chip would also project a holographic screen above our wrists so we could
browse the net and message people - the ultimate in computer portability. I
wish we had them now, it’d be a lot easier than fiddling around with a smart
phone.
Language, like technology, evolves. So you need to come up with
new futuristic phrases. You can’t really
use ones we use today, otherwise it destroys the illusion of being in the
future. On the other hand, inventing new language can be difficult to pull off,
as it can sound unfamiliar and just plain odd. For the Spiral Arm I
compromised. Awesome is something everyone says these days, so what would they
say in years to come? Beyond awesome of course!
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