About (U)topian
What would you do if you woke up in a utopia? Would you accept it? Would it accept you?
Card Smith, a privileged everyman from 2019, unexpectedly finds himself in a strange time: 2122. War and crime are gone. Jobs are optional, everything is free, you can spend your time on whatever you want to do. Society is flourishing. Card is immediately excited, but also annoyed for reasons he can’t fully explain. His head hurts. He falls into old habits. He gets into trouble.
As he meets new people and awkwardly settles into his new life in utopia, he must figure out the mystery as to why he’s not adjusting well when everyone else is so happy. Is there something sinister lying beneath the surface? Or is the only problem inside his own head? Card must overcome his limitations and weaknesses in order to evolve to meet the future he unexpectedly arrives in.
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An unfiltered, non-encompassing look at me. To be updated and/or changed wholecloth whenever.
– I really liked using Wordperfect and will never really acclimatize to Word entirely. Google Docs is good. I wanted to get a fancy writing keyboard but turns out the low-travel Surface Laptop 2 keyboard is fine for pounding out 100k words. I first wrote stories about me and my friends having cool magic powers and doing rad things, and then I moved onto Pokemon Fan Fiction because clearly I was the coolest kid in my class.
– A snake fell onto my shoulder when I was cottaging. I was maybe 7 or 8 years old. The odds of a snake going into a tree, then falling, and right onto my shoulder on an island. Since then (and also possibly before?) I dislike small animals that can move fast. I mean, they could come right at you before you even notice! My girlfriend made fun of me when I moved cautiously around a garter snake. Also, ever since reading 1984, mice and rats are the worst.
– I loved reading Haruki Murakami when I was in my teens and early twenties. I still read Norwegian Wood once every couple years, probably my favourite book ever. I get the criticism that’s been leveled against his writing of female characters in recent years, but it’s something hard to rationalize compared to my own dissatisfaction and melancholy that his writing drew out in me.
– I feel like every story should end with the fate of the universe at stake. Just a hot take to leave you with.
– My dream as a kid was to be a writer. Well, first, it was to be a lawyer in Grade 1. Then writer for the most of the rest of my childhood. Then lawyer again when I believed money was a cool thing. Then back to writer when I tried taking law classes in university. Kind of disparate, looking back at it. Lawyer? Ugh.
– All of this was possible because of my loving family. Also the blog’s namesake dog.