Space Badlands
Novel by Selim Bouhamidi
○ 1. Boss Status
Colorful and distasteful, oblong shapes, stoned truant – there is magic in her eyes when her lips taste the 2100 dope. Crushed together with her loved one, discarded clothes and dreck by boxy shack a mile from the big university. This is the wake of a calamity that big boys like Canary profit off of.
The more they phased out gas guzzling vehicles, the more the underground production and sales of these vehicles grew. Every week presented a new climate and economic disaster – the balm was dope, not much more needed to be done daily but numb the nerves.
Two classes exist: the moneyed and the banished. Society is bifurcated in this way with only one common allegiance: dope, preferably Canary’s dope. The moneyed no longer needed workers as all was automated to reproduce the wealth that magically stayed in their family coffers through out generations. The only upward mobility came in the drug trade and the many black market economies that existed.
The rest loved everywhere else crawling underground, scattered in the foothills, huddled together at abandoned amusement parks. Life was aimless in the extent that it was for centuries defined: no occupation was needed to occupy your time, your life, just free time that many filled in various trips.
The state of emergency was declared generations ago evolving into a tethering mess of contradictions. To thrive in life was no longer a safe ride but a crash course into darkness. Most however lived for their detached amusements and intoxication.
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One day, a greedy man arrived to liberate these pitiful souls: one kilo at a time. The man of the moment was born Ben Daniel but was better known as Canary the Kingpin.
Intro Canary
Drug Trade in Future
Becoming Boss
Politics
Violence
Mutants from Drug Use
○ 2. Shortened Timeline
Describe product
What makes Canary special
Origin stories
Canary and his Right Hand Man
Getting product over to friends faster
○ 3. Political Ladder
Bureaucracy
Family ties
Corruption, paying off politicians and police
Power on the run
Power in public eye
○ 4. Childhood Remembrances
Surviving near-death experience
Father
Mother
Neighborhood
School days
Getting into gang
Getting into game
○ 5. Assassin on Hunt
Chasing Canary
Canary fights paranoia
War
How he stays in control
Slipping assassin’s
Shoot outs
○ 6. Escalating Violence
Tit-for-tat
More brazen, public, brutal
How to de-escalate
Peace treaties
○ 7. Political Bladder
CEO rampage, mass-firings
Canary rampages
More corruption
Publicity campaigns
○ 8. Feeding Information
Police work
Busting crews
Informants
Enemies broadcast info
Voice of the voiceless
○ 9. Show Down
Canary against main rivals
Canary fighting police
Canary fighting family
Canary caught
Changing of the guard
○ 10. Life in Prison
Isolation
Mundane life
Prison work
Literacy, education of Canary
