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Oct 25, 2007 at 12:39am
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Review of Chapter Two of Urden
I would most definitely NOT have any scientific details. That's why I mentioned the McGuffin from Hitchcock -- these are just little technical tidbits to throw out to show you've thought about it. She might turn down the Hawking gravitron generator when she sleeps, for example, or when she has sex, just to show that you know there's got to be artificial gravity. Except that she wouldn't call it the Hawking Graviton Generator any more than we say "cathode ray tube" -- we say TV. But artificial gravity would effect everything we do -- sex, transport, giving birth (use a burst of micro-gravity to help squirt the baby out) to who knows what. Putting it in almost adds more complications than it solves...but keep it, and add some uses like having it vary during sexual positions, or use it for torturing prisoners or something unexpected.

I was more bothered by the suggestion that she was a cross-breed between human and alien...but some mention about genetic engineering having a hand in that someplace in the story would fix that too.

I couldn't agree more that this is fiction and not science. That's why H.G. Wells was so much better an author than Jules Verne, who seemed to stop and copy page after page out of the encyclopedia for filler.

Don't overdo it -- there are SciFi authors that write that kind of stuff and people who enjoy reading it...even me sometimes...but that is not what this story is about. Just do a nod in that direction to show you've thought about it and there is some technobabble device out there that handles it. Maybe have your hyperdrive called the "Witten engine" -- after the one of the geniuses of string theory -- and everyone will think you're an expert.

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