Anyone work that uses classical music in the time of interstellar warfare has got to be worth reading. Weaponizing Mozart is off the charts. Now I’m imagining all kinds of things. Very creative, indeed!
I do agree. Now I’m wondering if Mozart can break molecular bonds, what about Shostakovich? Rachmaninov etc. Even Orf’s work could destroy galaxies, create new, strange life forms and warp the brains of enemies. I want to read more….
Yee Haw! Where can I get a copy? Do you need a beta reader? That sounds like my kind of Good Thumping Read. ( the highest accolade given in the Le Baron Rural Lands.)
Already subscribed. Just read your post on creating art of all kinds in the current environment. Quality is definitely key. Seems like we agree on quite a few things.
Any story, long or short, that makes you become temporarily lost in someone else's imagination is really enjoyable...
And not an accusatory 'ism' or cocky girlbosses beating up powerfully built men twice her weight in sight, just a ship hunting down and obliterating it's quarry with weapons of melodic disintegration!
The Psychotic Amnesty is such a mint name for the vessel in your story too; I'm finding myself imagining what the backstory might be...
In a universe of advanced sonic weapons, maybe the Psychotic Amnesty was carrying out random auditory assaults on the population of a planet that was a superpower in it's stellar planetary system- an ordered world of civilised nobility, high culture and vast wealth, rich in thoughtfully cultivated resources and formidable military might- with ear-trashing, bass-boosted, distorted remixes of gay a.f pop culture music. Believing their comparative lack of power and military force would always stay the hand of their vastly more powerful target, and the high morality of their civilization would keep them safe from reprisal, the crew of the Psychotic Amnesty grew overconfident from previous inaction, their hostile intrusions an annoyance their targets would just have to live with and tolerate indefinitely...
Until they pushed their luck one too many times, and following a suprise assault after evading detection by utilising the globally ubiquitous system of gigantic, subterranean caverns of Myrod-1a - their closest moon - emerging to bring a civilian municipality within range of it's weapons and blast them with a hideously gay and cringe 'Dubstep Katy Perry Remix' - an event now known simply as 'The Great Earrape' - in which over four million outraged ears were simultaneously violated, an exasperated ruling elite finally ran out of patience. With mounting pressure from their aggrevated, harassed populations, they resolved to swat this fly once and for all, dispatced a hunter-killer war vessel from it's vast military armada to stalk them, chase them down and destroy them.
100% regarding the Katy Perry thing lol; just hearing her on the radio at work makes me feel like Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange when he's being tortured with Beethoven's 9th by that writer!
To use Wellington’s Victory would have been philistine.
Ace of Spades by Motorhead might have been good though, lol.
That's a tune!
Or 'Straight To Hell' by Venom...
The Gas Giant's core would have rocked so hard it would have became a Brown Dwarf lol
Maybe needs a sequel with a more trashy protagonist, lol.
Anyone work that uses classical music in the time of interstellar warfare has got to be worth reading. Weaponizing Mozart is off the charts. Now I’m imagining all kinds of things. Very creative, indeed!
Indeed. A more elegant form of dealing with one's enemies I'm sure you will agree.
Plenty more where that came from.
I do agree. Now I’m wondering if Mozart can break molecular bonds, what about Shostakovich? Rachmaninov etc. Even Orf’s work could destroy galaxies, create new, strange life forms and warp the brains of enemies. I want to read more….
I am sure a lunatic sentient ship like that could do all that and more.
Yee Haw! Where can I get a copy? Do you need a beta reader? That sounds like my kind of Good Thumping Read. ( the highest accolade given in the Le Baron Rural Lands.)
I intend to publish more on here. I don't have anything with the audio weapons, although I do have others written in the same universe.
If subscribed you will be informed when I publish on here.
Already subscribed. Just read your post on creating art of all kinds in the current environment. Quality is definitely key. Seems like we agree on quite a few things.
Yes we have to produce and publish, get it out there even if we can't distribute far. The work must exist first, we can work out distribution later.
Time is the great filter for quality.
This was really good Spaceman!
Any story, long or short, that makes you become temporarily lost in someone else's imagination is really enjoyable...
And not an accusatory 'ism' or cocky girlbosses beating up powerfully built men twice her weight in sight, just a ship hunting down and obliterating it's quarry with weapons of melodic disintegration!
Thanks! I am pleased you liked it. It is an unusual take so I am glad you got lost in it.
And no Woke in my world, lol 😜
I'm a suckered for a good story haha
The Psychotic Amnesty is such a mint name for the vessel in your story too; I'm finding myself imagining what the backstory might be...
In a universe of advanced sonic weapons, maybe the Psychotic Amnesty was carrying out random auditory assaults on the population of a planet that was a superpower in it's stellar planetary system- an ordered world of civilised nobility, high culture and vast wealth, rich in thoughtfully cultivated resources and formidable military might- with ear-trashing, bass-boosted, distorted remixes of gay a.f pop culture music. Believing their comparative lack of power and military force would always stay the hand of their vastly more powerful target, and the high morality of their civilization would keep them safe from reprisal, the crew of the Psychotic Amnesty grew overconfident from previous inaction, their hostile intrusions an annoyance their targets would just have to live with and tolerate indefinitely...
Until they pushed their luck one too many times, and following a suprise assault after evading detection by utilising the globally ubiquitous system of gigantic, subterranean caverns of Myrod-1a - their closest moon - emerging to bring a civilian municipality within range of it's weapons and blast them with a hideously gay and cringe 'Dubstep Katy Perry Remix' - an event now known simply as 'The Great Earrape' - in which over four million outraged ears were simultaneously violated, an exasperated ruling elite finally ran out of patience. With mounting pressure from their aggrevated, harassed populations, they resolved to swat this fly once and for all, dispatced a hunter-killer war vessel from it's vast military armada to stalk them, chase them down and destroy them.
And the last thing they heard is 'boss music'. :D
You have a knack for this. You should write your own short stories.
Although even I view subjecting people to Katy Perry as too cruel.
Heh thanks mate!
100% regarding the Katy Perry thing lol; just hearing her on the radio at work makes me feel like Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange when he's being tortured with Beethoven's 9th by that writer!
Lol. It is torture.