Twilight 2000 as Prophecy?

[newyorkronin]

Hmmmm, coo-coo for coco-puffs?

No new character classes or equipment? No e-mail? A lot of numerology. And what's with the Tom Clancy aliens at the end?

http://www.geocities.com/junesix2006

Gasp! Maybe, maybe, this T2K page was made by the ILLUMINATI!

 

[kafka47]

Love it. Just compile the others together and convince Marc to release further volumes of Twilight...and I could play in your fraked wracked world. I think although, I would play the role of the Vilani scout at the end of piece.

 

[Moebius]

this is great! thanks for the link.

 

[newyorkronin]

Actually, that's not my site at all. I just found it by Googling for anything Twilight. I mean I thought the post-apocalyptic worlds in the Terminator and Mad Max movies were depressing, but DAMN!

Originally posted by kafka47:
Love it. Just compile the others together and convince Marc to release further volumes of Twilight...and I could play in your fraked wracked world. I think although, I would play the role of the Vilani scout at the end of piece.

 

[Golan2072]

Originally posted by MilGovLackey:
Actually, that's not my site at all. I just found it by Googling for anything Twilight. I mean I thought the post-apocalyptic worlds in the Terminator and Mad Max movies were depressing, but DAMN!

Actually, the resulting situation reminds me of the Fallout computer games; similar depressive dead world inhabitated by small groups of survivors (most of them in underground "Vaults") and by strangely mutated creatures (mostly mutated by bio-genetic weapons rather than by radiation, Fallout tried to keep hard-scifi in this regard); the "soldiers using women as breeding stock" feels quite Fallout for me too.

 

[Jame]

I actually enjoyed that bit with the aliens. Makes me wonder if that's what they're really doing (presuming they're there, of course - why would they tell us?).

In all, very spooky, and I fear it may be accurate. (God I hope NOT.)


I wonder if Tom Clancy has ever written, or will ever write, an alien novel?

 

[kafka47]

It reminds me of the BBC film that was done with a nuclear confrontation between the USSR & the USA in the Persian Gulf.

But, the whole post appocalytic feel has to be best captured by the Morrow Project. I have always viewed T2000, this is what is going to happen if we screw up. Naturally, the world is closer to that point save, a major nuclear exchange is not in order to land on American soil but the selective food riots as IMF conditionality is applied to the USA might be reason for alarm.

Clancy writing an Alien novel...was that not simply Independence Day but with all the techno details added in?

For end of the world scenarios in the Near Future with a few handwaves for Interstellar Traveller check out William Gibson's script for Aliens3... Or maybe this is what I expected from Transhuman Space and did not get it...

 

[newyorkronin]

Fallout 2 was an absolute pleasure, especially the "Easter Eggs" hidden in the subplots.

Originally posted by Employee 2-4601:
Actually, the resulting situation reminds me of the Fallout computer games; similar depressive dead world inhabitated by small groups of survivors (most of them in underground "Vaults") and by strangely mutated creatures (mostly mutated by bio-genetic weapons rather than by radiation, Fallout tried to keep hard-scifi in this regard); the "soldiers using women as breeding stock" feels quite Fallout for me too.

 

[newyorkronin]

The first twenty chapters of any Clancy alien novel would have to be devoted to the mathematics of hyperdrive, the dynamics of alien bureaucracy and how the alien captain used lessons from his stern upbringing to set the example for the crew. The the plot can start

The closest thing to techno-thriller vs. aliens is Harry Turtledove's World War series.

Originally posted by Jame:
I wonder if Tom Clancy has ever written, or will ever write, an alien novel?