Argh. A conversation with myself.

[florahart]

Dear Self,

Yes, that's a lovely idea for fic-writing with which you've become moderately obsessed in the last 24 hours. However, what you have is not a bunny, it's a concept that would take a novel to do justice, and you really--really--do not have time to write a novel just now. Also, it's not a concept that necessarily would be fic in any

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[jenna_thorn]

I'm just...kind of amused at the idea of SGA as hard science.

Ummmmmmm........ okay.

But really and truly, I know you've got forty million other things to do first, but the world needs more hard science (preferably without glowly squid things playing god and frolicking about with the laws of physics) and I'm all for the idea of writing it down and then maybe in the spring writing it out as an original novel.

If you were taking votes, that'd be mine.

[florahart]

hahahahaha no, SGA isn't hard science, but it's scifi, not fantasy, insofar as the defining difference in cultures (its and the real world) is one of technology rather than magical beings. The show as it stands works out to be fairly fantastical in some ways, but the basis is genes and machines (that have turned to legend), not wands and elves and stuff.

:D

Not that there's a hard line here anyway, but that's where I make the divide.

[jenna_thorn]

Hee, yeah pretty much. Besides, on tv these days even a premise that starts out pretty hard core will get softened to keep from losing the masses.

Numb3rs was a neat idea but hit the MacGyver point fairly early on, when the random theory magically came up with the right combination a little too often. And I was happier with the Cylons when Six wasn't talking about God or making babies. Sigh.

It's one of the things that I'm really rather liking about Elizabeth Bear's series. Cybernetics, yes and nanites, yes and alien technology. But the cyber-enhancement comes at a price too high for most people to pay and the alien tech doesn't do what they think it does.

I blame Heinlein. Starship Troopers was cool, and then he had to go all Stranger in a Strange Land on us. I liked his Boys' Adventure Stories phase better than his pop psychology phase.

But that's just me.

[vimeslady]

Saying this is most thoroughly NOT in my own self-interest. I would much prefer that you write tons and tons of Snupin and Snarry and any other kind of Snape slash. So I really can't believe I am saying this.

If the idea has to be squished and stretched and folded to fit into any particular fandom, then it shouldn't be written as fanfic. Fanfic should start out based on given characters and their universe. Otherwise you end up with one of those stories where you can change the identities of all the characters and the fic is just as good (or bad). Anyway, I just don't think you should try to make this into fanfic (especially since I don't read BSG or SGA fanfic anyway).

Since the call of the muse is so strong, I would (reluctantly) vote that you write it as original fiction. But when you go professional and become rich and famous, try not to forget us. ,-)

[florahart]

Oh, yeah, I know.

*grumbles* I dunno if I could carry off the idea as it stands anyway, but it's eating my brain. Alas.

[ms_worplesdon]

I'm just a Harry/Ron comm member friending you so I get your public updates. *smiles great big smile*

I have no idea what SGA means. :(