Fiction:

One more poll for my regular readers before I start

In reviewing the comments where I solicited suggestions for what I should write (and post) here in the way of fiction, both the detective/police procedural and hard science fiction got the same number of votes, with many suggesting I combine genres (despite the difficulties involved in that).

So, now for the next question (and this will be the last before I start writing, other than perhaps to get some suggestions on character names, which I sometimes have difficulties with).

In 1982 I outlined a story set in 2017 (for specific reasons that will become apparent if this storyline is chosen) that was a hard SF/detective/police procedural story that I can flesh out and write. It involved how the InfoNet (recall, this was 1982, BEFORE the Internet and all the recent privacy issues arose) created a world where essentially there was no more confidential information if someone had enough money (or power in other ways) to get the information. As in all classic mysteries, it involved a murder and a MacGuffin that was not necessarily the real objective of one of the characters.

I can write that story, or:

I can put together a story set in a farther flung future that I have been putting together. In this setting, interstellar travel is commonplace, but it is founded on real possibilities that exist in our current understanding of Physics, and I think I've added a twist that many will find entertaining. I can add a mystery/detective story into this setting similar to the Elijah Baley/R. Daneel Olivaw stories of Isaac Asimov, although I definitely cannot promise anything like their quality.

So, the options to vote on are:

A) Near future, 2017

B) Far future, around 2250

Give me your votes and once I have what I feel is a consensus I'll try to post the first part of the story.

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