The Worlds I Live In, Part 1: The World of Silence In Numbers

So, I thought I'd put up some stuff here where I go a bit into the two series I'm currently writing. In this part, we're looking at the world of Silence In Numbers, the first book of which is finished and soon going online.

SIN is a series about the somewhat-near future (I can never tell where the line for "near" future ends), taking place in 2068. We've all seen the version of the future in science fiction where corporations take over, because to us today, that seems increasingly probable; SIN takes place during that transition, as the world is growing more privatized and national borders are being dissolved (there's no reason for countries to be so separated when they're run by companies, is there?).

There are a lot of advances in technology I could've gone for, but I decided on cybernetics because of all the possibilities it offers; cybernetics have now advanced to the point that they can be fully synthetic, allowing even someone with a high amount of cybernetics to appear and feel human. Synthetic skin, blood, warmth, digestion, breathing - it all works not only to help those with cybernetics feel like they're human and live normally (such as still eating food or drinking), but to minimize the risk of the body rejecting the cybernetics.

The amount of cybernetics a person has is referred to as their CP - Cyber Percentage. This means that if a person has a CP of 17%, then 17% of their body is cybernetic (that's seven times I've said that word, if you're keeping count. Cybernetics. Eight.)

The main story focuses around SIN-Unit 1, an elite unit under the Aegis Corporation, a private military firm that provides everything from private security to public security to disaster response to counter-terrorism, and everything in-between. SIN-Unit 1 is the first of its kind - the name stands for "Supernatural Invasion Null", and it was created by Aegis Corp to combat the paranormal threats that are kept unknown to the public through various means. These threats incorporate all sorts of things from ghosts to vampires to demons, but SIN-Unit 1 isn't limited to the supernatural - they also work as a counter-terrorism unit taking down the biggest threats using unknown methods.

Okay, I don't want to write an entirely new book here, so I'll cut this off here. In Part 2, I'll be going into the characters. I hope this stuff is interesting to someone, because I'm writing it anyway (neener neener).

Welcome to the Past

Welcome, future readers!

I say "future" because at the time of writing this, the only one here is me. Partially because this blog didn't previously exist, as it's difficult to read non-existent things (but not impossible), and partially because at the time of writing I am a completely unknown person typing out a few paragraphs to send out into the great void of the internet. So anyone that reads this post is most likely someone from the future, doing one of those binge-reading things you do when you discover a new site and go back to the first post to read the archive from the beginning. If you're doing that, please tell me I've improved as a writer. Also if I'm rich - I'd like to be rich.

Anyway, this blog with the cool name (it's cool, not emo, go away) is for me, Jake Taylor, to write... things. You know, stuff. Here you'll probably find everything from rants to comments on movies and games, just like every other blog out there because we all have our opinions these days and this is my blog so it's mine you get to see.

BUT! You will also find notes and ideas from my writing as well as writing in general and some other cool stuff, assuming you like my writing, and if you don't, well, what are you doing here?

If you've got anything to say, mosey on down to the comments and leave it there, I'll respond because I truly care about each and every person, and not at all because I have nothing better to do.