Untitled Idea:
What if someone killed Thomas Edison before he was able to gain supremacy for his vision of an electrified America? Instead of Edison, Tesla would have been the designer of our electrical infrastructure, and things would be very, very different from the world we know today…
*This story should work best with a ‘SteamPunk’ approach, think Jules Verne meets H.G. Wells-type gadgets and gizmos spilling all over the pages, while Victorian suited men try think the world away from the brink of disaster…
**Incorporate Victorian/SteamPunk through fashion, culture, architecture and art as well as the all-important industrial changes that might have been the result of a Tesla-driven world economy.
Radical Idea: To utilize Blues Men as Angel-type characters. The coming and going without much notice, from town to town, club to club, intersecting the lives of certain people that fate has plans for…
Methuselah Code: Most human beings can understand, at least the basics of mathematics. Unknown to all but a special few, there is a code embedded in math that provides the knowledge for extended life, or possible immortality. To unlock this code sets loose a universal reaction, one that only those whom fate has granted access can control. In the wrong hands…Doom. When the secret is uncovered by a terrorist cell, the dominoes of life, as we know them, begin to fall.
Note: There is an actual Methuselah Code, so research will be needed to link reality with fiction. Possibly a two year project including assembly material for content.
Mortician’s Apprentice: Set in Pre-Tormenta Galveston, (1892-96?) Another SteamPunk tale, (possibly linked to the Tesla idea…) flavored in the Verne-Wells industrial-age, an apprentice stumbles across a dark secret. Unsolved, heinous crimes are fatefully solved by the criminals unusual deaths, as if by karma. Just Rewards to the wicked; THINK Smoking Aces meets Boondocks Saints…
Quotes of note:
“…it is an argument worth rehearsing…” From the film: ‘An Education’ (A headmistress—played by Emma Thompson—is trying to explain life’s disappointments, and how it is important to stay on the expected path of education. The student asks: “Why should I want to be as miserable as you and everyone else telling me that I need to do this, or that?” The headmistress shrugs so the student says: “It is an argument worth rehearsing, don’t you think?”
and then she adds…
“It is not enough to just teach us, you are going to have to start telling us why.”
“I may or may not have on pants…” The Fabulous Feathermaye
I.Q.’s grandson was named Audie, but it is pronounced ‘oughty’ since the child was born in ‘ought’ one.
More notes from S Bond as they accumulate.
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