Ambition

[mrissa]

Someday I will write a fantasy novel for adults that has nothing whatever to do with the Manhattan Project, from this angle

Comments

[rysmiel]

As thematic obsessions go, it's a sight better than many. Not being politically obnoxious helps a great deal, for one thing.

[mrissa]

It's not politically obnoxious?

Well, that's good to know.

[rysmiel]

I don't think quantum mechanics is politically obnoxious to anyone save those parts of society who want not just to roll back the good changes made in the 20th century but everything as far back as the Renaissance, and I doubt many of them read SF anyway. [ Unless you count Left Behind as SF. ]

[mrissa]

Hmm. And "noodling around a theme of" tends to be less immediately problematic than "drawing conclusions and sending messages about," I suppose.

[swan_tower]

On a not-unrelated note, have you read Mary Gentle's Book of Ash quartet?

[mrissa]

Yes. It ate my head.

Just recently it ate timprov's head as well.

But that's a good deal more direct than the QM stuff usually comes in my books.

[swan_tower]

But what an enjoyable consumption of one's head it is.

[mrissa]

Definitely.

[timprov]

Where does the Manhattan Project appear in The True Tale of Carter Hall?

[mrissa]

Appear directly, no. But Philip Morrison is not entirely irrelevant, except for the Tater Tot bit, which we already discussed down in the living room.