Working title: VorShock.
Aug. 23rd, 2013 10:15 pmThe simple proximity of finishing Bioshock and then going onto read some of the Vorkosigan saga made me realize two things: Jackson’s Whole is basically a planet-sized Rapture, and even though a crossover would be easy enough to pull off and amazing and fabulous and work to comment on aspects of both canons simultaneously, I don’t have the time right now.
Which didn’t stop me from plotting out what the story would be, if I did. ZiGraves spent several afternoons and evenings listening patiently, suggesting quite a few ideas, and then admitted she doesn’t have the time, either.
Thankfully, it’s easy enough to summarize and pass on the general gist of the thing. Found families, simultaneous questions of responsibility both for one’s actions and the well-being of others, the nature of childhood and maturity. How for all the citations and examples of true wealth being biological, there’s nothing in the Vorkosigan Saga about families whose members aren’t related to each other – families that choose themselves because of shared circumstance and history. To reference another book series, the ‘logical’ family over the ‘biological’ one. In an ideal universe, I’d write this crossover to address that absence. Right now, I’m going to skip that and go for summarizing the story instead.
There’s still Jack, and the Little Sisters, and Tenenbaum and Suchong and Andrew Ryan and Frank Fontaine. Figuring out how to put them into the context of the Vorkosigan saga and make it work wasn’t actually too difficult, thanks to the level of technology it’s got. There’s no Rapture, no ADAM, no plasmids. That said, they don’t necessarily have the same names – since this version of Brigid Tenenbaum is from Cetaganda, she wouldn’t be called ‘Tenenbaum’, but rather a different, more Cetagandan name which also translates to ‘pine tree’ – which is a series of details I don’t want to bother with working out right now. But there’s still plenty of mad science, genetic engineering, hidden plots and backstories.
( About twenty-five years before the start of the story... )
Which didn’t stop me from plotting out what the story would be, if I did. ZiGraves spent several afternoons and evenings listening patiently, suggesting quite a few ideas, and then admitted she doesn’t have the time, either.
Thankfully, it’s easy enough to summarize and pass on the general gist of the thing. Found families, simultaneous questions of responsibility both for one’s actions and the well-being of others, the nature of childhood and maturity. How for all the citations and examples of true wealth being biological, there’s nothing in the Vorkosigan Saga about families whose members aren’t related to each other – families that choose themselves because of shared circumstance and history. To reference another book series, the ‘logical’ family over the ‘biological’ one. In an ideal universe, I’d write this crossover to address that absence. Right now, I’m going to skip that and go for summarizing the story instead.
There’s still Jack, and the Little Sisters, and Tenenbaum and Suchong and Andrew Ryan and Frank Fontaine. Figuring out how to put them into the context of the Vorkosigan saga and make it work wasn’t actually too difficult, thanks to the level of technology it’s got. There’s no Rapture, no ADAM, no plasmids. That said, they don’t necessarily have the same names – since this version of Brigid Tenenbaum is from Cetaganda, she wouldn’t be called ‘Tenenbaum’, but rather a different, more Cetagandan name which also translates to ‘pine tree’ – which is a series of details I don’t want to bother with working out right now. But there’s still plenty of mad science, genetic engineering, hidden plots and backstories.
( About twenty-five years before the start of the story... )
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