Project “Space Trucker”
Project Space Trucker
So this will be a short blog entry today. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve started the “Rough Draft” of a new project: Project Space Trucker. Yes, I know the title is inelegant, but it is what the story is about. Well, not literally about Semi-Trucks in space, but about the future and how a “Trucker” in the future might be realized in terms of world/setting, characterization, plot, etc.
This project has no relation to the 1996 movie Space Truckers. I’ve never seen that movie & didn’t even know it existed until I googled the words Space & Truck for the above image. After seeing the trailer (see below), I’ve no real desire to see the movie as it is apparently B movie in every sense of the word (bikini-clad female co-pilot and ship that apparently has a semi-truck “trailer” attached to the back of the ship). If I ever run across it on streaming (& I have a couple of hours to kill), I might watch it now that I know it exists, but its not something I’m going to go searching for as you can see for yourself from the Trailer posted on YouTube.
Inspiration
No, this project was inspired quite a bit by my commute to school. I often pass by Semi-Trucks on the road and I started noticing the names of the shipping companies on the trailers or the names of the transport and logistic companies on the sides of the trucks and that started me to thinking about how these companies might exist in a space/science fiction environment.
Also, along the route to school, there is a truck “pull-off stop area.” It isn’t a rest area per se, but a small set of lanes where trucks can pull off the highway safely and sleep/rest before making their way to a mandatory truck checking area that is a few miles up the road. This way truckers can sleep/rest and not get fined or penalized for not having taken mandatory rest breaks as required by American law. On one trip, I saw a couple of truckers conversing with each other outside their trucks and also began to wonder how that interaction might play out in a sci-fi universe.
What’s Next?
So, I really like the way this project is headed so far. I have a fairly clear idea of the character. I’m working on the Rough Draft this week and over the weekend, I hope to work on character sketches for the two main characters. Right now, I’m plugging away on the “Working Draft” of Project Poet (Poet). I’m not sure what’s on deck after Poet as I still need to go back and do another draft for Project Skye as well, but I’ll update you next week.
Well, looks like I’m out of time for today. Have a great day!
Sidney
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