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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/18/09

    In reply to What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?
    Brad Meltzer's comments remind me of a conversation i had with my editor earlier today (he's currently going over a new story of mine) he told me "it's a great story! but we need to have a talk, you really need an editor."

    and than i found myself wondering what he does all day....
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/09

    In reply to What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?
    Note to self: tweak more nozzles. #books
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    11/17/09

    In reply to What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?
    I found it interesting reading The History of Middle Earth volumes and seeing how the story evolved. There were things that Tolkien knew no longer fit the story (like Tom Bombadil), but he hadn't the heart to throw them out. Also, there were fundamental differences that remained almost until the end. For example, Strider was a hobbit named Trotter for a long time, before eventually becoming Aragorn and central to the story. #books
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    11/17/09

    In reply to What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?
    I own that issue of Astounding Stories in my pulp library. #books
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/17/09

    In reply to What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?
    I was really hoping Greg Keyes would provide a quote. Born Queen was so far off the rails it didn't even resemble the rest of the series. #books
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    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    11/17/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: it would've been nice to see David Brin explain Earth, too.

    #@! #books
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    Image of Brodka: regrettably Brodka: regrettably
    09/24/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into

    Stick me in one of these and let an annoying side-kick carry me around.
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    Image of van_line van_line
    09/23/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into
    No Robot Man from the Doom Patrol?? what about just a brain (The Brain) in a jar with his talking ape (Monsieur Mallah)??

    Maybe one of the greatest comic book moments ever when Mallah confessed his love for the Brain.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    09/24/09

    @van_line: Thought about those... but they're literally just a brain connected to a robot... not someone downloading into a robot body. Of course, I did include the Outer Limits episode along those lines, but I thought it was more of a "download" scenario somehow.
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    Image of AshThePirate AshThePirate
    09/23/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into
    Briareos anyone?
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    Image of thexpert thexpert
    09/23/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into
    Are these really better in any way than the evil plan of IG-88 to download himself into the deathstar? Imagine actually BEING Darth Vader's HOUSE! He LIVES in YOU! Awesome!
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    Image of TonyRockyHorror TonyRockyHorror
    09/23/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into
    Takeshi Kavacs
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/24/09

    @TonyRockyHorror: That's "Kovacs", and he was uploaded into other meaty human bodies.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    09/24/09

    @Grey_Area: at some point, with the amount of modifications and gene splicing that went into those bodies, one would have to question if there were really 'human' anymore. bio-organic machines maybe?
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    Image of Tailslide Tailslide
    09/24/09

    @tetracycloide: Actually, Tak spent the first quarter of "Woken Furies" in a synthetic sleeve, which is essentially a robot body.
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    09/24/09

    @Tailslide: Both really good points that hurl us spiraling into that whole "what is human anyways?"
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    Image of Blank-Mage Blank-Mage
    09/23/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into
    Ghost in the Shell must be mentioned. The masses demand it!
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    Image of James Countryman James Countryman
    09/23/09

    @Blank-Mage: I call criminal franchise neglect on that. Tachikomas, FTW.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    09/24/09

    @James Countryman: hear hear
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    Image of Terrorsaur - Five Six Terrorsaur - Five Six
    09/23/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into
    You guys are so unoriginal. I would put my brain in a fucking cookie jar.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    09/23/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into
    You know, I really want to read Skinned.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    09/23/09

    @MargaretMoony: It's actually pretty great. Was thinking of reviewing it in a day or 2.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    09/24/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: That good to hear, 'cause the cover makes it look like a crappy robot Twilight. YA publishers, make better covers for your readers.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/23/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into

    What, no Fortress Maximus? (The bigass thing in the background)
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    Image of Chimaera Chimaera
    09/23/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: No Barbeaubots either. feh.
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    Image of dumanue dumanue
    09/23/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into
    so no mention of Ghost in the Shell at all?

    and yes I know Ghost was mentioned in the list you did a while ago, but that Ghost was SAC: SSS, not the original movie OR Innocence...

    Major Kusanaga in the body of the cyborg girl? The puppet master? C-Space? comeon people...
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    Image of Rocketknight Rocketknight
    09/23/09

    @dumanue: Ugh. Oshii's movies are shitty and pretentious. Watch the TV show or read the manga.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    09/23/09

    @dumanue: I include Ghost In The Shell in the "runners up" list... IIRC it's mostly cyborgs but there are some cyborgs who become full fledged robots eventually. But I admit it's a bit hazy.
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    Image of dumanue dumanue
    09/23/09

    @Rocketknight: what you might call pretentious I call musing...

    ever had the chance to watch Avalon? his non japanese movie? now that is insanely musing on the essence of reality and the mind...
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    Image of Rocketknight Rocketknight
    09/25/09

    @dumanue: I find it pretentious because it's essentially talking heads. I thought the series did very well with questioning humanity up until the Puppet Master turned it into an info dump about existentialism.

    I'm a fan of showing the audience rather than telling them about it. That's kind of hard to do when you're trying to question what reality is, but I think it can be done.

    I felt very much the same way during chapters of 1984 where Winston is reading the rebel manifesto. I just starting spacing out and flipping pages until it finally moved on to what was happening to Winston.

    I suppose I care more about the characters and what will happen to them than what they think about during a philosophical discussion.
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