It’s the year 2038, and it’s the golden age of cable news. Rising data costs have decimated online streaming, the big three cable networks are bigger than ever. Nina Constantinos is a local TV reporter who gets her chance to work for cable giant WWN – but not everything is as it appears at America’s leading network. Nina learns quickly that staying afloat at WWN requires more than just a nose for news, and closes in on secrets that could shake society as she knows it.
About the Story
Basic Cable is a serialized novel of the near future, inspired by the media we consume and served in bite-size chunks for the busy reader. Fair warning: this story takes place in the future, but not The Future™. There are no mirrorshades or flying cars here, no utopia and no dystopia. History is funny like that.
New installments will be posted thrice weekly on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. Tuesday and Thursday will follow the main storyline, while Sunday posts will be in a different place and a different time.
If you desire to start at the very beginning (a very fine place to start), click on the Table of Contents to view all past entries.
About the Author
Adam Brickley is a lifelong science fiction fan and world news junkie. If you were particularly attuned during the 2008 presidential election, you might remember him from his political blog Draft Sarah Palin for Vice President, which launched in February 2007 and later resulted in appearances on CNN, FoxNews, and the BBC, as well as an in-studio interview on The Colbert Report which accidentally generated the title “Basic Cable.”
Adam has worked in Washington, DC’s non-profit sector for over a decade and currently lives in Northern Virginia. He holds a degree in political science from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs – where an early version of “Basic Cable” once surfaced in a Creative Writing course – and has taken graduate classes at the Institute of World Politics in Washington. In addition to writing, Adam is an enthusiastic tracker of political polling in more than 30 countries and a passionate advocate for dialogue across ideological lines.