Monday Morning Mock Draft, Chapter The Fourth

One of the biggest things I miss from our old site was the mock drafts that used to run every Friday.  Those were fantastic time wasters, and a good one was a virtual guarantee that you were going to be far from productive at work, as your day instead degenerated into arguments with strangers over who would be the best Saturday cartoon character to have sex with, (and now we all know how that would go), or some other equally inane topic, all of which were still more important than that TPS report deadline your boss was yelling about.  Good times.

Well, it’s been long enough.  After a discussion in the back channels yours truly is bringing it back, with some slight rule changes.  The old site had 4-5 main contributors, one of whom may not have been real.  So they’d do 2-3 rounds themselves, then kick it to the kommentariat to draft whatever was left over.  You can do that when you’ve only taken 10-15 of whatever topic was up for drafting.  We, however, are a much more connected group when it comes to the writin’ and draftin’ of things, so if we did that we’d easily take out 30-50 before we threw the bedraggled leftovers to our beloved readership.  That’s no fun.  So these drafts, which I expect to last as long as I remember to do them, (2-3 weeks), will just leap right into it.

Also, for content and alliteration reasons, we’ve moved the draft to Monday mornings, so get ready to kill your productivity right from the start.

Yours in the comments, first come, first served.  For now, please wait 10 picks or 30 minutes before making another one.  That will be revised up or down depending on how much participation we get, which I hope will be a lot.

This Week’s Category:  The book/novel/short story universe that you would most like to live in and why.  Now, before you get all mad about there apparently being an essay portion to this draft, just know that this week’s topic came from the, uh, ‘fertile’ imagination of our resident homelessness prevention specialist, Scotchnaut, and he can probably figure out where you live.  That said, let’s get to this week’s commissioner and the rules.

Greetings, I’m CS Lewis.  You may know me as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, a fantasy series that is not even barely disguised as Christian mythology, a point that is neither here nor there.  A point that is not only here, but also there, (a point beaten absolutely to death in said Chronicles), is that I invented an entire world, Narnia and surrounding lands, as the setting for my story.  In this draft you will be selecting similar worlds, maybe even Narnia, as a story universe you would like to live in.

  1.  You may pick any fictional universe, so long as it appears on the written page in one form or another.  In another words, nerds, you can draft something from the Marvel Universe, because it is fictional, and it does appear in written form.  Any story universe that only appears in film it out.  Figure it out as you go.
  2. You cannot take an entire universe with one pick.  In other words, you can’t say “The Marvel Universe” and prevent anyone else from taking any other part of the MCU.  Perhaps a better example would be if you were to, citing the works of my contemporary, JRR Tolkien, draft “Middle Earth”, that you trigger my appearance and a remonstrance that you would need to pick a specific portion of Middle Earth, such as the Shire, Moria, Mordor, or whatever your nerdish mind comes up with.  In short, (too late!), be specific and don’t be greedy.
  3. There is no third rule.  Those two are it.  Go forth and abuse that Homer Simpson “Nerrrrrrrrrrrd” gif like we all know you will.

Since Scotchnaut came up with this idea, the first pick is his.  Scotchy, have at it.

 

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Doktor Zymm

Brentford from Robert Rankin’s the Brentford Trilogy

And has no one taken anything from Hitchhiker’s Guide? I’m nabbing that if it’s still up for grabs

Doktor Zymm

Oh wait, I see Dunstan got Ursa Minor Beta. I’ll take Milliways

Doktor Zymm

Also want the 100-acre wood from Winnie the Pooh

BrettFavresColonoscopy

How about Ian Fleming’s version of London? Seemed cool.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I should tally these up. I’ve got:

1. Commonwealth Saga – Peter F. Hamilton
2. Fool on the Hill – Matt Ruff
3. Waiting for the Galactic Bus – Parke Godwin
4. All Souls Trilogy – Deborah Harkness

Pretty tame set of picks by me. Nothing I’m embarrased by, but nothing very special. C-

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I missed this whole thing. Um, I’ll take Chicago in the Blues Brothers. I want to just stumble upon Ray Charles performing in the street while everyone dances. And where he shoots a gun regularly.

Beerguyrob

For my third pick, I will take the Jack Chick universe. Because the sinners are always having the best time.
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Dunstan

Alright, I’ll take a bit of a flyer with my fifth pick. Camorr from Scott Lynch’s Gentlemen Bastards series. Essentially an ersatz Venice during the Renaissance, with some magic thrown in for fun. Sure, there’s a lot of organized crime, but where isn’t there?

That closes me out with:

  1. Risa
  2. Brakebills
  3. Ursa Beta Minor
  4. Gatsby-NY
  5. Camorr

The Renaissance, the Jazz Age, modern Earth, and two advanced pleasure planets, hopefully at least one of which has advanced liver treatment available.

Senor Weaselo

Springfield is still on the board, and there are Simpsons comics?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh1hmmLLzw

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

4. I need an occult pick, so I guess I’ll go with the All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches) by Deborah Harkness. There’s witches and vampires and Matt Daemons, and they’re mostly pretty chill and not a huge threat to humans. Anne Rice was on my radar at this slot but if I’m not going to *be* a vampire I wouldn’t be too jazzed about living in a universe where humans are their prey.

King Hippo

The Last Policeman. I am ready to watch society rapidly disintegrate, waiting for an asteroid that will eliminate the human race. Bring. It. On.

TheRevanchist

Penthouse Letters. Pretty sure those are 100% fiction, as the same phrases and writing style can be seen, and, yes, I probably read those too much to know that.

If that is taken, the series A Noodle Shop Mystery by Vivien Chen also sounds good. Murder mysteries and such, with titles like Murder Lo Mein, Dim Sum of All Fears, & Egg Drop Dead are truly inspiring to my stomach and my fat ass.

Dunstan

I never thought those letters were true, either, until one day….