I first imagined Terra as an alternate Earth for a dystopian cyberpunk/steampunk RPG (role playing game) that I intended to run with some friends about ten years ago. It’s like earth, but not quite.
There were two time periods that I imagined gaming in. The first was a kind of Victorian England, but not England, more of a quasi-Germanic unified Europe. The second was a futuristic, later version, evolved from the first, set in the 23rd century in a kind of dystopian society based on modern China—constant surveillance and thought control.
One of my friends said it sounded too much like reality and we never actually gamed in it.
I had maps and scrawled-out notes about the city of Londbridge and some vague ideas about technologies past and present, and after the RPG petered out and eventually died due to lack of interest and moving houses, I let it go for a number of years.
My recent, exciting change in employment has given me the time to get back into writing. Cyanide Blue takes place in Terra, as does the follow up book, Etiquette of Empire (should be published in the next couple weeks). The short story Puppetry does as well (and the forthcoming short story Human Resources.)
Ion Fyr 