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"Borrowing" Ideas...
Don:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on January 18, 2013, 03:26:18 PM ---Also, if your Shadow stops electricity, why does a human nervous system still work under its influence ?
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Living things have a built in threshold-like property that keeps the Shadow from penetrating. It's also checked by other things, but I don't really want to talk about all that. I can say that I see these complications, and I understand that understanding the physics behind what I'm doing is important.
I'm not saying I have it all worked out, but I have a few workarounds.
--- Quote from: LizW65 on January 18, 2013, 04:02:10 PM ---I'd go ahead and write it and THEN read/watch the other media. Don't worry about it being potentially sellable; if its a story you really want to tell you should just do it. You can go always go back and change some things if it turns out to be too derivative.
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I still have to make an outline for the story as it exists in my head today. I have 80 pages of copy that I decided to reject but keep for spare parts. Maybe I should plan out the story and then compare notes...
Timeline:
I like the workaround you used to explain why the nervous system still works, the same logic can be applied to why pacemakers and the like have not stopped working. I have to say though, it gives me a (sort of hilarious) terrible image of genetically engineered cat-guns, what is essentially is normally a cat is also, well, a gun. The combustion happens inside of the cat, so the shadow wouldn't affect it.
I'm a terrible person.
Don:
--- Quote from: Timeline on January 18, 2013, 11:17:20 PM ---I like the workaround you used to explain why the nervous system still works, the same logic can be applied to why pacemakers and the like have not stopped working. I have to say though, it gives me a (sort of hilarious) terrible image of genetically engineered cat-guns, what is essentially is normally a cat is also, well, a gun. The combustion happens inside of the cat, so the shadow wouldn't affect it.
I'm a terrible person.
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:P
Sir Huron Stone:
It just so happens I've read S.M. Sterling's books, and I can tell you, it starts off like regualr world, but then it goes more into the magical realm as the books go on. But yeah, they're pretty good.
Bones:
Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels series has something vaguely similar. Magic entered the world at a certain point and vies with technology. When a magic wave hits there's no tech and when it subsides the tech works. So people are using horses and coal stoves just in case magic hits and they can't depend on their technology. The leading lady wields a sword. I know that's not exactly what you're talking about, but it seems vaguely like it, so the basic premise is out there in various forms. You may as well go for it. :)
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