On 11/9/2014 3:37 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
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I only saw Amsterdam from the airport which is probably not much of it
at all.
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/On a clear day from the air you could probably see all the little
winding roads and the almost endless rows of flats with canals running
in between and probably a wind mill or two. /
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I tend to have screenplays in my mind which actually might start out
as more manageable short stories.
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/Amsterdam would be a would be a good location for a book about the
hippies. From what I've read there are thousands of hippies over there,
the other Barry being one of the most infamous hippies in town.
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One idea is stories set in the "solution" future I have where the
economy has been brought into balance, the government is
transcendental socialist which it's not in your face there to serve
the people and there is free enterprise for the folks who want to run
their own small business.
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/This sounds like a story that could take place at The Farm in
Summerville started by Stephen Gaskin./
It's a very clean and lean society with plenty of leisure time. The
stories themselves might be more comedy of errors that just use that
future as a setting. But it's a good way to demonstrate how cool that
future could be rather than just talking in theory.
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/The hippies at The Farm described themselves as "voluntary peasants",
an intentional community that is based on the principles of nonviolence
and environmental respect. The Farm was founded by San Francisco hippies
in 1971. ///The Farm now has approximately 175 residents and is
vegetarian and self-sustaining./
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_%28Tennessee%29
Read more:
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/*/The 60s Communes: Hippies and Commune/*/
//by Timothy Miller//
//Syracuse U. Press, 1999/
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To try out my new "free" Bluray player on a disc I watched "Edge of
Tomorrow" which I enjoyed because of the humor in it. Features Tom
Cruise and Emily Blunt. It also had a fairly plausible idea about
where the aliens came from.
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/Non sequitur. Ray Dolby, R.I.P./
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On 11/09/2014 09:20 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Having finished one big project recently and looking for another, I
am toying with taking advantage of where I live and writing a scifi
story set in a Blade Runner-ish future...but in Amsterdam.
We got to see what L.A. had evolved (or devolved) into in "Blade
Runner." But if you know Amsterdam at all, can you imagine what *it*
will be like in the future? I can. :-)
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*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Birth of the Hippies
If you were writing science fiction what would you be writing these days?
On 11/08/2014 11:51 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
Cheers, there's a lot of my faves there and a few new ones that I
haven't tried. And a couple of those are now on the way to me!
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<mailto:turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Try this site:
http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/top-25-best-science-fiction-books.php
