Gabriel F.W. Koch's Blog
March 21, 2020
Defining Paradox Effect
In 2554, the World is Coming to its End, unless an impossible mission through 600 years of time travel succeeds.
Maternal instinct knows no boundaries, including the nano-neural-net intravenously installed in Dannia Weston’s mind to repress her identity, allowing her to perform a mission 300 years before her time.
Transported to the year 1954, Dannia becomes a woman with a mid-twentieth century persona, college educated with an aptitude for mechanical invention. Due to her work during the war, she is employed by the U.S. government on a secret project. But what no one knows—including Dannia or those who sent her back to tinker with the mechanical past to reduce future pollution—is what might happen should she become emotionally involved in 1954.
The 2254 science team programmed the nano-net to prevent the possibility of pregnancy, but each person reacts to strong emotional stimuli differently, and using birth control not available in 1954 is out of the question.
When Dannia falls in love with Peter Hersh and becomes pregnant, her hormones erode a small section of the nano-chained network that stabilizes her new identity, triggering a mild memory rebirth…and threatening her mission and the fate of the world.
Maternal instinct knows no boundaries, including the nano-neural-net intravenously installed in Dannia Weston’s mind to repress her identity, allowing her to perform a mission 300 years before her time.
Transported to the year 1954, Dannia becomes a woman with a mid-twentieth century persona, college educated with an aptitude for mechanical invention. Due to her work during the war, she is employed by the U.S. government on a secret project. But what no one knows—including Dannia or those who sent her back to tinker with the mechanical past to reduce future pollution—is what might happen should she become emotionally involved in 1954.
The 2254 science team programmed the nano-net to prevent the possibility of pregnancy, but each person reacts to strong emotional stimuli differently, and using birth control not available in 1954 is out of the question.
When Dannia falls in love with Peter Hersh and becomes pregnant, her hormones erode a small section of the nano-chained network that stabilizes her new identity, triggering a mild memory rebirth…and threatening her mission and the fate of the world.
March 4, 2020
Time Travel Paradox
Always when writing about time travel, we need to remember potential paradoxes. Yet what if the protagonist's purpose is to create one? Or if the people sending the traveler back knows they'll be birthing a paradox that if successful will alter all history after the event?
Might even eliminate them. A paradox within a paradox. If you eliminate the creator of time travel, would she have created it?
I love time travel. It allows me to delve into the history of a time past and if researched correctly, allows me to better understand the people who lived then. Since I'm creating charactors from both the past and distant future, I try to run underlining contrasts based on what existed in each time.
Six hundred years from now, assuming humanity doesn't destroy itself first, no one will know what a handheld digital device was. It's likely they won't know social media existed, at least in the form we use it now.
There's more but later.
Might even eliminate them. A paradox within a paradox. If you eliminate the creator of time travel, would she have created it?
I love time travel. It allows me to delve into the history of a time past and if researched correctly, allows me to better understand the people who lived then. Since I'm creating charactors from both the past and distant future, I try to run underlining contrasts based on what existed in each time.
Six hundred years from now, assuming humanity doesn't destroy itself first, no one will know what a handheld digital device was. It's likely they won't know social media existed, at least in the form we use it now.
There's more but later.
March 2, 2020
Titles and Such
I've now spent several days attempting to name this blog. Until now and after now I'm afraid once again a title eludes me.
My latest book had a working title of And We Mourn Still. The plot is centered on a future time when America has been divided by a final war between the corporations running the country and the people of the Pacific Northwest who banded together andsuccessfully revolted.
Death is a stealthy companion in war.
I didn't think the working title would be right once the novel was published. But I could not imagine a better one. Dilemma is my closest friend at times like these.
Hence the problem with a blog title. Perhaps...
My latest book had a working title of And We Mourn Still. The plot is centered on a future time when America has been divided by a final war between the corporations running the country and the people of the Pacific Northwest who banded together andsuccessfully revolted.
Death is a stealthy companion in war.
I didn't think the working title would be right once the novel was published. But I could not imagine a better one. Dilemma is my closest friend at times like these.
Hence the problem with a blog title. Perhaps...
