Author(s):dunmurderin Setting/Universe: DEFCON: Fade Out
In 1983, a series of mishaps, misunderstandings and unfortunate coincidences led to a full-scale nuclear war between the US and USSR. One hundred years later, the world is a different place where the United States of America is a fragmented land where recovery is haphazard.
The action takes place in and around the Toledo Base Camp in the East North Central Recovery Zone and involves a group of characters who are equal parts adventurers and scientists.
Basically, these stories are my attempt at doing a riff on the cheesy post-apocalyptic men's adventure survival novels of the 1980s. Books with titles like "Swamp Master" and "Doomsday Warrior" and heroes named "Rock" Rockson and Blade. In my case, I'm trying to write adventure stories with characters who don't fit the narrow-minded 80s adventure hero mold of white, cisgendered, straight manly men with rippling muscles and ridiculous amounts of guns and ammo. I'm also playing around with weird science (can't have cheesy 80s post-apocalypse without mutants!) and alternate history.
I'm thinking of using table B because it gives a nice mix of ideas.
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Date: 2011-02-27 12:14 am (UTC)Setting/Universe: DEFCON: Fade Out
In 1983, a series of mishaps, misunderstandings and unfortunate coincidences led to a full-scale nuclear war between the US and USSR. One hundred years later, the world is a different place where the United States of America is a fragmented land where recovery is haphazard.
The action takes place in and around the Toledo Base Camp in the East North Central Recovery Zone and involves a group of characters who are equal parts adventurers and scientists.
Basically, these stories are my attempt at doing a riff on the cheesy post-apocalyptic men's adventure survival novels of the 1980s. Books with titles like "Swamp Master" and "Doomsday Warrior" and heroes named "Rock" Rockson and Blade. In my case, I'm trying to write adventure stories with characters who don't fit the narrow-minded 80s adventure hero mold of white, cisgendered, straight manly men with rippling muscles and ridiculous amounts of guns and ammo. I'm also playing around with weird science (can't have cheesy 80s post-apocalypse without mutants!) and alternate history.
I'm thinking of using table B because it gives a nice mix of ideas.