2084: Chapter One

Just some light fiction for ur amusement: The year is 2084, as kai stared into the blank stare of his
computer screen; for his screen really was watching him, or at least the person behind his screen..."was
she a cutie, was she a he, a fat hairy guy?" he wondered. Either way, it was a government operative
spying on him -he knew and they knew and watched -his every move like some sick reality tv show. And
he knew they had enthusiastically volunteered to do so; after all, by the "Good Governemnt Ordinance
of 2040" all entertainment that was not government controlled or starring government officials had been
outlawed. It was part of the new campaign called "edutainment" -"facilitating the growth of pro-social
attitudes --WITH FUN!".

For now kai had to sleep, he was getting tired and yet had to combat the excitement he felt at his new
assignment tommorrow in the heart of one of the Alliance's most buslting cities -Pleasure Dome #1 -if he
remembered correct, it was what the proles and elderly still called "London".

The early morning haze blinded kai. instinctively squinting he could make out beyond the ribbons of
orange and red, the gleaming spires of pleasure-dome 1. He gasped. Never did he imagine it could be so
beautiful. He stood there, as the shuttle hovered ever closer. Stood there. The morning haze lifting like a
theater-curtain, revealed ever more completely -ever more tantalizingly -the pleasure-dome's skyline.
The glittering buildings standing hundreds of meters tall, looked more like mountains and the sun's
brilliance now receding, each builiding's color came more into focus: azure, violet, emerald. But at the
center of it kai -breathlessly -saw the most curious of all structures yet. It was a vast pyramid (easily the
largest structure, several thousand meters tall -with snow on the top?!) with a large placque: MINISTRY
OF LOVE and a large symbol on it -one that gave kai a feeling he could call foreboding -which kai had

never yet seen: