[HoE] Amnesia Moon

[Matthew Steflik <grifflik@stny.rr.com>]

Kitten (a.k.a. Kociak) wrote:

> Has anyone tried to combine HOE with Jonathan Lethem's "Amnesia Moon"?
> (to sum it up, the idea is that because of some disaster reality fell
> apart
> into local post-apocaliptic pieces, only one of them being Mad Maxish
> postnuclear).
> It just seems kinda natural to me that ghost rock nukes would have
> some
> more drastic reality-distorting effects than "just" turning the place
> into
> a desert populated with mutated monsters :)
> I wonder if anyone has any comments on that

Not familiar with the book (He wrote Gun, with Occasional Music, right?
Something like that.  Kind of a Sci Fi cum Noir-esque piece?  Anyway.),
but the idea is intriguing as a possible variant.  By "post apocalyptic
pieces" are we  talking individual pocket realities, each centered upon
the focus of an event (such as a ghost nuke detonation)? And each
reality represents a different post apocalyptic view (Hmm...just how
many of these could you have? I think I might need to find this
book...)? Would entering and exiting such a "piece" be as easy (relative
term) as walking through a ghost storm (which I suppose if you stretch
it could be a situation not entirely dissimilar "Sliders")?  Or are we
talking about ghost nukes ripping holes in the fabric of reality,
creating "gateway" to other dimensions, such as the Hunting Grounds and
such?  Well, more questions than comments I suppose, but there you go.

Matt Steflik
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