CET @strangeseawolf@mindly.social#WordWeavers 16 If someone reads your book in the far future, are there themes or influences they’d identify as relevant to our time?
Probably. The thing is that only in retrospect this is something we see in our own works some years after we have written it because only then, we have enough distance to see it. And this is just the personal aspect.
People in the future are looking at works written a long time ago through the lense of history, so they know what happened and what the outcome was, so they will interpret it in a very different way than we can, today.
Having said that, I think the topics
- death
- violence
- injustice
- love
- hope
- understanding and embracing differences
- make it through terrible events and difficult times
- how to prevail when the cards are stacked against you
are fundamental to being human, so I hope the tale as such is not irrelevant once taken out of its time.
(Not that this will happen, mind, just as a hypothetical scenario of someone grabbing the book in the 26th century and reading how I imagined that person's "today").
Deserved praise! In particular, there was a good point about the sense of claustrophobia induced by the nature of the ship and situation. Adds delicious tension to the interactions romantic and rancorous.