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I’m currently working on a murder mystery set in modern-day South Korea, which starts with a scientist getting his mind swapped with a commoner from the end of the 60’s/beginning of the 70’s, and I’m having difficulty properly explaining the logic (if there is any?) behind this swap. I don’t want to reveal too much, but my (current) background ( Read more... )

This is probably too specific to get a full answer from googling, but I've read the Wikipedia article on fences used for security purposes, have looked at what articles I can find that include prison escapees circumventing electric fences, and have googled various combinations of "electric fence" and climb, escape, etc ( Read more... )

Searched: how does radiation affect electronics, will radiation affect electronics before humans, what level of radiation damages electronics, how much radiation to make a computer malfunction, radiation hardening, beta radiation, gamma radiation, etc ( Read more... )

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I admit this is more than a “little detail” - if there are “worldbuilding” comms out there, I’d be very interested to hear about them.
Setting: Britain, maybe 300 years from now, 150 years from the collapse of modern civilisation probably due to a pandemic, maybe in combination with a war. So the ecosystem is doing fine (in fact, far better), and ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story set at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, set between 1983-1987. I've been filling it in with details from my own college experience, but that was in the early 2000s, so I've been trying to check which of the details I remember would still be accurate two decades earlier and which would be anachronistic. So far there are ( Read more... )

I'm trying to work out the details of a story set in an alternate universe that is much like ours, with some subtle and not-so-subtle differences. I'd love to get opinions (and explanations from more tech-savvy folk than I) on whether it would be plausible for humanity to have developed computers (or at least WWII-era technology, since this was the ( Read more... )

My fic is set at the present time, in New York city to be exact ( Read more... )

I'm writing a cyberpunk-thriller that's set mostly in the present time (a few years in the future, but not much), so society is basically the same as we know it ( Read more... )