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 Posted: 19-Apr-2025 12:13 Post subject: I am writing Battletech fiction |
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It started at trying to make a background for my character a mercenary commander in the 3rd Succession War, and I started researching Battletech lore, and one thing led to the other... and sort of snowballed, and now I'm telling his life like it were flashbacks in a holovid show interview, got some nice action going on in the build-up and the interview hasn't even started yet!
It's a literary exercise of nestled Battletech references, but is turning out as some good reading and I am filling gaps of Battletech lore and making my own contribution.
I did use IA from Grok and ChatGPT to help me research and write it, but this is not IA generated slop, the dialogues and the plot lines are mine, and I use my own style, it's a labor of love not literature but entertaining enough me thinks.
Let me know if you read it and if you enjoy it!
I posted the links in the Fiction section of this forum, but you can start with this first scene
www.tumblr.com/the-outer-topic/781116274818334720/crimes-of-the-black-widow-company-live-broadcast
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| Posted: 06-Jul-2025 15:56 Post subject: I am writing Battletech fiction |
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Just so you know I finished my magnum opus "A studio in ComStar"
Completed. I wrote something like "A few good 'Mechs" but turned into a character studio and a reveal like Hercule Poirot in "Murder in the Orient Express"
it's the most entertaining of the works, but the romantic story is perhaps deeper. I have to add a couple final scenes to that one, but it ends well as it is.
Let me know if anybody of you read and liked, please!
Afterthought: "A studio in ComStar" is not finished. There are more stories to be told, without the high stakes drama but still interesting, I hope.
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| Posted: 18-Jul-2025 08:13 Post subject: I am writing Battletech fiction |
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on reflection and having sampled Battletech published fiction and fan fiction I am more confident of the merits of this story and its quality. It's a mix of genres, I admit that it's a collection of lectures and essays like this dinner table talk, disguised as a story. It's like the forum postings I would like to have or Battletech nerd discussions about the setting but told by an in universe character. It's in the mold of classic sci fi. Case in point, my model is Falkenberg Legion series first couple books or Starship troopers. science fiction is all about to create a futurist scenario and explaining it why it works and how it works. I am not giving social commentary or author idealistic uthopians like those two mentioned, or Jack London, I am simply explaining a shared universe and filling in the gaps, because that's my niche interest. World building. Just like people devour Middle Earth not because Tolkien story telling but the world he created. Aside from the lectures, I have a romance plot with engaging witty dialogue and a running comedy of jokes that break up the monotony of lecture and makes it feels like a real table talk. I am weaving together different stories and genres. This whole story besides telling us about the Battletech universe is a studio in character, it shows us an interesting and typical character Viktor Starkov, who is detailed and not a cardboard cutout and I show it a study in command: what makes a leader effective, believeable realistic soldiers and their interaction. Now these are my lofty intentions and you are feel to disagree and point out the flaws, but I feel this salad of themes and stories is working well. And the dialogue format though awkward becauses it takes away omniscient narrator and exposition is needed through the characters talk , actually makes it easily readable and engaging. This is not a Battletech history textbook but is delivered through oral story. Viktor and Alina and the rest of the cast are not just names for the author's voice, but they have a life of their own and their romance is the conductor thread. The supporting cast is just hinted at, but they do have personalities, we don't get to know them full but enough to be regarded as acquaintances. I think this works well, we have a "boy meets girl" story but it has its unique flavor because of the setting. And the romance is different in its own way and not like the typical romance novel. Not Anna Karenina but engaging enough in itself to deserve interest beyond the Battletech info dumps. What do you think, honestly?
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