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[info]cataptromancer
2005-02-27 04:42 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
Any objections to me pimping your site in my LJ?

Although a couple questions -- will you be putting up any of your non-graphic-script fiction? The first novel? And where's the comic you did about the world with the power lottery...can you not put that up because of copyright restrictions from the artist or something?

Inhabit is a very cool idea. It would make a good tv show.

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[info]parakkum
2005-02-27 06:07 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
Please pimp freely. I meant to say that earlier. :)

I didn't want to put up the first novel until I was sure I knew what I'm doing with it. I probably should put up some of my short stories, and I will put up the super power story Apex (which, shockingly, I completely forgot about). Pia, the artist, does also hold copyright, but I am allowed to post it as an example of my writing (and she's allowed to post it as an example of her art (it's a general clause in collaboration contracts).

Yeah, I'm proud of Inhabit, and would love to market it in many media. It's also, I think, a pretty expandable idea -- after all, consider the fact that even Drones used in warfare need to be piloted by kids. Treated realistically, that's an interesting and deep psychological situation. Treated otherwise, it's Gundam Wing. :)

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[info]cataptromancer
2005-02-27 06:11 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
Yeah, it's a good idea -- and think about the toys. I can see the blister pack with the little kid action figure and the big drone action figure together. (I've never read Ender's Game - is that vaguely similar?).

You could also have enemies: the Neverlanders, outlaw groups (pirates? crime syndicates? guerillas?) who take drugs that enable them to pilot drones as adults but make them psychotic and physically deformed.

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[info]cataptromancer
2005-02-27 06:18 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
Oh, and do you know the guy who writes Dork Tower, or did you just add his LJ?

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[info]parakkum
2005-02-27 06:51 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
I don't know John Kovalic personally, though I have met him. I just like (1) having Dork Tower appear on my friends list and (2) knowing about his upcoming work.

Ender's Game is similar in using kids for war, but is otherwise quite different (I don't want to say too much more about the differences, as they give away one of the key plot points of Ender's Game).

That Neverlanders idea is pretty cool. The only reservation I'd have about it is that if you could drug adults to let them be pilots, you might (since an adult could give informed consent and all). Of course, even in our contemporary world where one does not need kids for war, children are recruited into armies.

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[info]parakkum
2005-02-27 06:31 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
I should also mention (and you might as well, when pimping) that additional material (Apex and other things) will be going up very soon.

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No can see!
(Anonymous)
2005-02-28 06:53 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
There are a lot of images I can't see (for instance, Inhabit) cuz it says that that image file has errors. Please fix!

--Jeanna

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[info]parakkum
2005-02-28 07:49 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
Fixed. I'll write more on that in the next entry.