Schtoof.

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You know, it really pisses me off, when authors use this sort of, "And suddenly, the hero becomes a complete idiot for a few hours!" type ploy to push a plot forward. Shouldn't editors be watching for weak shit like that in published works

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Heh, yup, the evil computer has been used a lot, but more recent things than 2001 have pulled it off better than "I, Robot" did (since the evil computer there seemed like a complete rip-off of the one in Deux Ex, even if it was based off of a book written long before...)

Clones are good. Anything that can touch on genes and biotech is pretty 'in' right now, (to the point that Crichton can slap a 5 or 600 page political thesis about gene patents, with a weak plot, and hit the best seller list...).

My one-third finished quasi-smut-fest of a book last year (or was it the year before?) has spawned a lot of other ideas in my head - the world kinda took off for me - that I haven't gotten to develop at all. Any of them might make a good Nano (potentially ironic, given nano-tech is part of my theme lately), so I'm probably going to get involved. Hopefully writing in the form of 'word vomit' will be something I can do at work, even with people bothering me. If so, I'll have more than enough time, even if any serious writting (or editing) would have to wait for home.