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Escape Pod => Science Fiction Discussion => Topic started by: jrderego on June 17, 2014, 03:39:28 AM

Title: Serialized Union Dues story
Post by: jrderego on June 17, 2014, 03:39:28 AM
For anyone interested, Freedom with a Small f is being serialized in text at Radius Lit. New installments on Mondays.

http://www.radiuslit.org/

Title: Re: Serialized Union Dues story
Post by: SonofSpermcube on June 19, 2014, 02:30:14 AM
I don't think I've listened to all the Union Dues stories yet, just most of them (and Freedom with a Small F is one of the best), so disregard if you've already done so:  Have you ever considered writing more about the superheroes outside the US, or the Union's role outside it; as the Union seems to be an extremely nationalistic entity, and you've had characters escape to outside the US, it seems like there's some potential there.
Title: Re: Serialized Union Dues story
Post by: jrderego on June 20, 2014, 03:55:25 AM
I don't think I've listened to all the Union Dues stories yet, just most of them (and Freedom with a Small F is one of the best), so disregard if you've already done so:  Have you ever considered writing more about the superheroes outside the US, or the Union's role outside it; as the Union seems to be an extremely nationalistic entity, and you've had characters escape to outside the US, it seems like there's some potential there.

I played around with some ideas that might make it into actual stories about Union members venturing outside the US. But I wasn't able to get them to gel.
Title: Re: Serialized Union Dues story
Post by: SonofSpermcube on June 21, 2014, 05:15:23 AM
I don't think I've listened to all the Union Dues stories yet, just most of them (and Freedom with a Small F is one of the best), so disregard if you've already done so:  Have you ever considered writing more about the superheroes outside the US, or the Union's role outside it; as the Union seems to be an extremely nationalistic entity, and you've had characters escape to outside the US, it seems like there's some potential there.

I played around with some ideas that might make it into actual stories about Union members venturing outside the US. But I wasn't able to get them to gel.

"Rendition" of foreign or expatriate superhumans to the Village, and the public response to this inside and outside the US?
Title: Re: Serialized Union Dues story
Post by: jrderego on June 23, 2014, 12:29:53 AM
there are no foreign or expatriot supers in the Union Dues stories. It's a US phenomena.
Title: Re: Serialized Union Dues story
Post by: SonofSpermcube on June 29, 2014, 11:53:11 AM
Eh, what about that dude who escaped to mexico?  Am I misremembering that?  And no one who carries the trait ever fucked around overseas? 

What happens when someone does escape, and makes it to a country that wouldn't hand them over or take kindly to Union goons stomping around looking for them?