Question regarding the story(spoilers)

[Boost Me;-) minimis]

I have two questions that about the story. First of all about the backstory of the game. If the computer wiped out humanity by a nuclear war and a couple people escaped in a bunker how is he able to torture them? He is just a computer. How is he possible to transfer the guys in those tormenting machines etc?

Second regarding the ending ("good one"). While i know the book had a bad ending they added in a good ending in the game where the people are on the moon. First of all its interestening idea but stupidly executed. The main characters are in the underground of some facillity, how is it possible that the characters are watching the moonbase people?

[dnru]

Nimdok's chapter reveals that AM has access to advanced morphogenics and can manipulate life as he pleases. This is how he converts people to energy and moves them around his constructs. The golem in this chapter and the Glynis robot in the final chapter shows he has autonama at his control with which he can build pretty much anything underground.

There are several functions available to AM that are locked away in his subconscious unbeknownst to him. It is his responsibility to wake the lunar colony and begin restoration of the surface world in the event of global nuclear war, but these tasks were kept from him by the Chinese and Russian AIs who lived where AM could not see. Some unstable change in AM allowed them to influence his scenarios in a bid to use the 5 survivors to wrest control from AM's concious mind and let them take over, but this backfires in the good ending and a survivor takes on all of AM's concious and subconscious functions instead.

[Boost Me;-) minimis]

Ty that explained the plotholes for me !

[Nix]

Also, the protagonists did not escape to a bunker per se; it is implied in the novella that AM specifically engineered the nuclear holocaust in such a way that these five were 'picked' to survive it. Ted wrestles with why they were specifically chosen in the novella.

[flarefan]

Originally posted by Nix ~Favortown.:

Also, the protagonists did not escape to a bunker per se; it is implied in the novella that AM specifically engineered the nuclear holocaust in such a way that these five were 'picked' to survive it. Ted wrestles with why they were specifically chosen in the novella.

It's not a novella, or even a novelette. It's a short story (and not particularly long even for that category).

[Nix]

Lol, thanks- though the category of the text isn't really relevant to his question but I am not a stranger to pedantry myself ;P

[Boost Me;-) minimis]

Originally posted by Nix ~Favortown.:

Lol, thanks- though the category of the text isn't really relevant to his question but I am not a stranger to pedantry myself ;P

Dude that was a year ago XD

[dnru]

I'm just happy to see any kind of activity in these threads

[flarefan]

Originally posted by Nix ~Favortown.:

Lol, thanks- though the category of the text isn't really relevant to his question but I am not a stranger to pedantry myself ;P

It's not pedantry; the difference between a short story and a novella is huge enough to be unmistakable. It's like referring to Florida as a nation.

[Boost Me;-) minimis]

Originally posted by flarefan:

Originally posted by Nix ~Favortown.:

Lol, thanks- though the category of the text isn't really relevant to his question but I am not a stranger to pedantry myself ;P

It's not pedantry; the difference between a short story and a novella is huge enough to be unmistakable. It's like referring to Florida as a nation.

In this sense, the opposite not. If you mistake a novel and a novella its kinda the same .

[Boost Me;-) minimis]

Originally posted by ⎛⎛LosTiger⎞⎞:

Originally posted by flarefan:

It's not pedantry; the difference between a short story and a novella is huge enough to be unmistakable. It's like referring to Florida as a nation.

In this sense, the opposite not. If you mistake a novel and a novella its kinda the same .

Then again, some short stories are 200 pages long.

[flarefan]

Originally posted by ⎛⎛LosTiger⎞⎞:

Originally posted by ⎛⎛LosTiger⎞⎞:

In this sense, the opposite not. If you mistake a novel and a novella its kinda the same .

Then again, some short stories are 200 pages long.

If you use a large enough font, wide enough margins, and/or small enough pages, sure.

And no, a novel and a novella are different things.

[Boost Me;-) minimis]

Originally posted by flarefan:

Originally posted by ⎛⎛LosTiger⎞⎞:

Then again, some short stories are 200 pages long.

If you use a large enough font, wide enough margins, and/or small enough pages, sure.

And no, a novel and a novella are different things.

Explain

[flarefan]

A novella is a shorter work (the cutoff I most often see is 40,000 words) and is more commonly published in anthology-format than as a standalone volume. Structurally, novellas tend to "get right to the point", whereas novels are usually deliberately paced out so as to ensure the reader gets multiple sittings of enjoyment.

[Boost Me;-) minimis]

Im pretty sure the novella crabwalk was not directly "on the point".

[flarefan]

Not clear on what your point is there...