Endless dungeon ryaka
They’re like Severance‘s “innies” – cut off from anything but their jobs. Meanwhile, the real world becomes its own alien landscape, made all the more so because they no longer participate in it.
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Actors in the book stop going back to the “real” world on the other side of the Veil, living full time on sets and in dressing rooms, with the occasional jaunt to protected areas of the fae world. Politics, entertainment, culture, medicine – everything goes on, while you stay fixed in place. Like a river you’ve stepped out of, the world moves on without you. Mortality introduces stakes to a life (not wooden stakes, we’ve moved on from vampires now), while immortality removes them. Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire got it right – it takes stamina to be a bloodsucker decade after unending decade, until Buffy catches up with you.įor humans, this is exponentially more horrifying. We’ve already read the moaning and groaning of creatures like vampires, who’re purely exhausted with all the chasing down of victims, the sameness of meals every day. Long life is a double-edged sword, something people my age are only starting to comprehend. Or young-ish.īut I wanted to explore what this would feel like beyond a thought experiment.
After all, immortality ranks up there with almost everybody’s top three super wishes (right after flying and invisibility).You could do All! The! Things! You could invest your money wisely and spend hundreds of years tending your portfolio. Exit when you’re ready (in my world, you don’t turn into a heap of dust with all your years accruing at once) and live as long as you want.
In one way, it’s an ideal solution to the conundrum of never being able to die: immortality, but conditional. So what would it be like to work among creatures who live for hundreds, if not thousands, of years – who’d want you, a puny human actor, to stick around longer than their molting cycle? What would it like for them to confer a “prize” (an “Endless Award,” in the book) for your talent that gave you immortality – so long as you were employed on the show? Many soap actors devote their careers to one character, one show. The title even harks back to classic cliffhangers soaps relied on, suggesting the answers you crave will all be there if you tune in … tomorrow. I’m an entertainment journalist and trust me, I’ve seen some stuff.īut time was always part of the story. After all, Tune‘s a funny book (if I’ve done it right) full of slapstick, puns and backstage shenanigans.
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When I first started writing Tune in Tomorrow, a book that muses on what a reality TV show/soap opera created by mythical creatures, for mythical creatures – but starring humans – would look like, I confess that I didn’t give the nature of time much thought. I get cranky at things that waste my time, because they feel like theft. My patience is shorter, my attention span shifted. Time weighs on me now more than it did in my 20s or 30s there are more “never gonna do that” listings in my bucket list column than there used to be. We’re fascinated with tweaking time – and simultaneously terrified by it. Ancient demons, immortal gods, fae with unknown lifespans, potions that turn back the clock. One great thrill we get from writing and reading fantasy, science fiction or even horror is about imagining creating and watching creatures who toy with mortality. Author Randee Dawn plays with a fantastical variant of this sentiment with her new novel Tune In Tomorrow.