Title Needed - Tuckerization Offered

[mabfan]

You know, I really wasn't planning on doing it this way, but...

I'm working on a sequel to my story "TeleAbsence," about the Virtual Reality school, and I need a title. I'm racking my brains to think of one, and I can't. The plot of this new story is that Tony is now an adult in charge of the telepresence school system and is trying to convince the California public school system to adopt the program. But one of the students has learned how to hack the system in a way that allows him to kill other students -- and the entire point of telepresence school was to eliminate violence in schools. Tony must help find the killer and convince the state commission to adopt the program.

So...any ideas? The winner can get Tuckerized in the story.

Comments

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Elimination Program? Or just Elimination? I haven't read the first one, but those are what comes to mind after reading the plot summary. Or perhaps I'm just channeling Stephen King. ;)

[somehedgehog.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking some kind of play on "Antisocial." It can refer both to the antisocial tendencies of violent students, and the socialization/isolation dynamic of a telepresence school. Or maybe some kind of play on "Student Body," if there's a murder-mystery aspect to the story.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Possibly just TelePresence, to parallel the original title as well as being the kind of school, and the presence of the killer in a way s/he's not supposed to be able to be.

[bluepapercup]

*nod* my thoughs as well.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

"Elimination" doesn't really fit the theme of the story, sadly, although it is an interesting title...

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

These are both good thoughts, but neither sparks my mind to say, "Yes! That's the one!"

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

gnomi actually suggested "TelePresence" to me before, to parallel "TeleAbsence," but as I said about another title above, it's just not making me jump. However, I think I'll use it as my working title for the moment.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me, but I'd like the idea of retaining the "Tele-" prefix for the sequel. "TeleMalice", "TeleViolence", "TeleViolation"?

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Telecommunication

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

TeleVolition is how I read that last one, at first. It made me wonder ...

[somehedgehog.livejournal.com]

Me neither - I'm just throwing ideas out there in hopes that they'll reach a critical mass.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

And your help is very much appreciated!

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

So far I agree with TelePresence and TeleViolation as good ideas.

For other Tele stuff I submit TeleTypo and TeleHacker. The latter one's probably better, the first one just tickled my funny bone.
For a non-Tele title, if the hacker is bragging about it a lot I submit Boast in the Shell or Boast in the Machine.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Maybe some variation on "Control-Alt-Delete?" (Delete's always struck me as sinister, for some reason. "Confirm Delete y/n?" something like that.) Maybe "Abort/Retry/Fail" to go along with the school motif.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Academic Redshirting (okay, so no one else will think this is even half as amusing as I do, but such is my role in life)

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Actually, I find this quite amusing...

[arib.livejournal.com]

Maybe "School's Out."

Since students can now come to school remotely, or also because students are being murdered, causing the closing of the schools involved, and the cancelling of the telecommuting system.

Dunno.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

My first thought, too, was TelePresence, but let me think about athough possibilities.

TeleViolence, which has a similar sound to television.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

This is the first one that sparks a little more interest in me.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Say, Steve, if it sells, will you collect it in your anthology of twentieth-anniversary stories? :-)

[somehedgehog.livejournal.com]

In that vein, Fatal Error could be interesting as well. School program, computer program, etc. Program Error? Fatal System Error? Overwrite/Override?

Hey, how about Terminal? 'Cause a terminal is a device that enables you to connect to a computer, and it can also imply, you know, fatality.

TeleTerminal?

[sokmunky.livejournal.com]

First Choice: Telemetry
2nd choice: Biotelemtry
Definitions below.

S.


te·lem·e·try
Pronunciation: t&-'le-m&-trE
Function: noun 1 : the science or process of telemetering data 2 : data transmitted by telemetry 3 : BIOTELEMETRY
- tele·met·ric /"te-l&-'me-trik/ adjective
- tele·met·ri·cal·ly /-tri-k(&-)lE/ adverb


bio·te·lem·e·try
Pronunciation: -t&-'le-m&-trE
Function: noun
: the remote detection and measurement of a human or animal function, activity, or condition
- bio·tel·e·met·ric /-"te-l&-'me-trik/ adjective

[arib.livejournal.com]

Well, if everyone's grown so fond of the prefix, why don't we have some fun with it...

Go Tele-it on the Mountain?

I'm sorry. :-)

[arib.livejournal.com]

um... woot?

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

You focus on the story, I'll focus on trying to sell an anthology. When we both succeed, we'll talk about it.

Toss in a couple of Greeks and you can call the story Telemakhos.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

And I meant tenth-anniversary stories. Gack. It only _feels_ like twenty years.

[somehedgehog.livejournal.com]

Put the greeks on skis. Then it can be Telemark.

[fynixsoul.livejournal.com]

Telementry? Or, since it's a murder mystery case, "Telementry, My Dear Watson?"

*snicker*

Seriously, though, I think Telepresence is the best one. It implies there's a presence in the system that there shouldn't be, as well as drawing the parallel to teleabsence.


Either way, good luck with the story! It sounds awesome, and I can't wait to read it

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Not to be a downer, but wasn't there a story in a recent Analog about a virtual-reality school in which one of the students was virtually harassing the other students, and one of them almost died as a result? I'm sure yours is very different, but you may want to go back and reread that one just so you can minimize any similarities.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

You're referring to "Viewschool" by Rajnar Vajra, and mine will be different.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I'll look forward to reading it!