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If you're wanting to read the actual story, back up and try again. These are just the author's notes. Anyway.
Author's Notes
Ah, the first and only glorious rewrite of The Chaotic Multiverse . . . which, upon further speculation, needs to be rewritten again. Oh, well, we're none of us perfect, neh?
It was after writing BotE that I got my first inkling of exactly what I was getting myself into, but for some reason it just wasn't enough to turn me away quite yet. Y'see, this was actually a for-real short story at one point that was only supposed to introduce Julian and Snively, give them some background, and then launch them into space. What happened, oddly, was that I found myself in the position of having to give out a ton of exposition just to tell the story I was going to be telling further down the road. As a result, BotE became the longest piece of fiction (fan or otherwise) that I had ever written at the time. I also found out halfway through the rewrite of the next story, First Contact, that it was a very short story . . . compared to what the rest of the stories in the series were going to be like.
This in itself was mildly depressing . . . while I enjoy writing Sonic fanfics very very much, spending that much time and hard work on something that I had absolutely no chance of getting paid for was an undesirable thing. Money doesn't mean that much to me, but when it's the choice between being able to afford eating or not, I'm afraid writing 120 KB sized text files rather than working for pay is simply out of the question. And if I was going to continue down the path that TCM led me, that's what I was going to have to do . . .
But, hey, y'know, enough of the depressing crap and on to a few random points of interest from the story, neh?
First off, yes, the story starts in Leningrad. Those of you who know your history and geography are probably well aware that Leningrad became St. Petersburg after a while . . . well, by the year 2172, it's become Leningrad again. Deal with it! =P
This story deals a lot with the supposed mayhem and madness of the mid-twenty-first century . . . in fact, I think I rather overkilled the sentiment by mentioning it several hundred times throughout the fic. Now, for those of you who were paying attention and happen to be well versed in role-playing games, you may have noticed that some of what I was referring to is straight from the Shadowrun RPG. Some of the characters, businesses, and the like in the story, in fact, were taken directly from SR games that I have GameMastered. Gregory Tanis Shiningleaf IV, for example, is actually one of the characters I used to play, an elf who still lives after the age of magic had waned. So, it's sort of an in-joke that no one but me and maybe two or three other people really get or care about. Other writers do that all the time and I think I can be allowed the occaisional conceit, don't you?
And finally, descriptions of Dr. Robert Post's appearance were intentionally modeled to depict a human version of Uncle Chuck.
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