193: SHAMAN

[olicon]

Pardon me for not reading other responses before I post.
That was a truly wonderful story. I have always liked something with a nostalgic feel to it, and this really hits that note. The parallel between magic and technology, reality and metaphysics, they're all very awesome and welcoming. I love stories like this.

 

[Orange Monkey]

An Incredible story.

 

[the_tralfalmadorian]

excellent writing. I absolutely loved the daughter-father relationship and how it played out in this. Kudos.

 

[meatloaf231]

Absolutely incredible, I love the idea and admit that I've never thought of anything of the sort myself. "What if there was no internet?" I was born in '90, to me, there's nothing astounding about the internet or globalization. The world was always small. But to a person who'd never seen such things? Well...your story was dead on, and I look forward to see more thought provoking writing from you.

Yep, pretty much this. Fantastic writing, intriguing premise.

 

[felixader]

You know there is a reason why i limit my use of the internet with a kind actual "social interaction" on specific sides.

This reason is that all this "reltions" are niot real.

THERE IS NOTHING like talking to a person and looking at/in her/his actual facial expressions and real bodylanguage, as much as i enjoy multiplayer ( to be exact Coop) on my consoles.

 

[boyitsme95]

Holy
Crap

That was fantastic. Truly a fantastic work of literature that should be respected for ages to come.

Bravo.

 

[Kelethor]

This was...confusing, I have to say. Very scary to think about really, being plunged into a reality you have no idea where, or what it does. makes you think. an excellent read.

 

[teknoarcanist]

Try to slide 'singularity' in there where no one'll notice, will ya? I saw it!
Sneaky bastard.
I did enjoy that, though. I'm often hit by that feeling--while we haven't reached what the retro-futurists had in mind as far as flying cars and robot maids, I feel like what we DO have would blow an 80s techie's mind.
How would they react to iPods? Car GPS? Flash drives? Redbox*? MMO's? iMax? Windows 7?
Twitter?

*edit: actually, I think redbox might be exactly what they had in mind, except that it doesn't dictate your selection with a hot chick's voice and accompanying hologram. And there's no clear plastic housing so you can see the mechanical arms picking your DVD's out.

 

[randommaster]

Holy balls awesome

that is all there is to say.

 

[Valiance]

...This was really...

Wow.

I don't even know what to say, but that's one of the most astonishing things I've read in the past month.

 

[Shadeovblack]

Beautiful.

 

[Vancleef]

That was great. No, fantastic.

Probably the best thing I've read in a while.