Karina Sanchez

…but you do want some details or it won’t seem like torture. Just give them a starting point. Your readers can imagine the rest.

I’d say go with it for torture and murder and suicide and all that stuff. But who wants a nightmare? Don’t give your reader a nightmare.

Well I’m not exactly the kind of person who enjoys reading something that terrifying, at least not that terrifying in a dark, spine chilling, twisted sort of way. So… I don’t have a ton of ideas on this.

But… you did mention torture. I’m not big into graphic details of anything disgusting, but that doesn’t mean I’m against having anything…[Read more]

Hey Mark,

I understand we already have holograms of a sort, but it is my understanding that these are actually two dimensional even though they look three dimensional and look just like they would in real life no matter which angle you are looking at them. This new hologram however is actually 3d. It is also very advanced from what I heard. My…[Read more]

Hey you may have it there, Mark. Good analysis.

That was another thing I liked about Star Wars— even the characters who didn’t speak (whistle, gurgle, bleep bleep, and Gah! don’t count as speaking, at least not in my book) had personalities. They weren’t just droids or wookiees— they were people, even if they weren’t.

Doesn’t that make all…[Read more]

They hover using magnetic technology…

You could also get the same result using cats with pieces of buttered bread tied to their backs. Since buttered bread always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet, the two opposing forces would create a single hovering entity, each force struggling for the mastery, and each unable to…[Read more]

And holographic screens (instead of tablets)

I forgot about that. Holograms. Now here’s something interesting. We already have a kind of hologram fake thing, but I have a friend (very honest) who told me his aunt created a real working hologram that actually projects a 3d light image in mid air (Speaking of limiting light to a certain space, this…[Read more]

Another way I could see the chips used is for tracking.

Militaristic space stations. Lots of them, and fighting between them. Ooohh, fun.

Pity for de Villefort? Mmm, I don’t know. I felt a lot of pity for him when he went mad, but not much until then. You could really sympathize with his daughter though.

Well do it then!

See, I know what you mean, having just finished the book, and for a great deal of the story I almost felt that the Count himself was the villain. My feelings of pity were more strongly invested with de Villefort than with the Count, because the Count was, as you said, thirsting, we might even say lusting, after vengeance. But…[Read more]

I think the issue rather simple. A person is not labeled good or bad because one quality outweighs the other. A downright villain may have (or really appear to have) many countless qualities, but that does not make him a good person. What defines him is not a balance of qualities but the one quality that defines him, the one thing that drives him…[Read more]

Well of course we’ll all have time sabers by then – but no really.

First lasers: Of course we have them but will we ever have laser guns? I doubt it. Laser guns shoot a block of laser beam. That means you need to flash the laser extremely fast, almost at the speed of light. We are already starting to use lasers as weapons but they aren’t cheap…[Read more]

Oh my, what a deep question! We could spend years dissecting this one thing, but I’ll spare you the ordeal of everything I could find to say on this subject. 😛

A few things that raise red flags in my mind are as follows:

1. Does the person disregard the taking of life as a necessary part of living? Even hardened warriors do not slay for…[Read more]

You know you’re a writer when just the two words ‘novel’ and ‘idea’ make you cringe, because you already have way too many of them and are swamped as it is.

Heh-heh… yeah.

Okay, when I read ‘if you think of any other kind of futuristic technology’ I got this crazy image of us all walking around with shock-collars on and some sadistic governmental committee hovering over a glowing panel of instruments and monitoring our every move… which is weird, since I’m not a conspiracy theorist.

But let’s not pursue that…[Read more]

I like Dr. Lorry too, but Sydney Carton completely blew me away.

Miss Pross is another great character, and Lucie too, only Lucie and Charles Darnay were sort of… ideally perfect. Sydney was the personification of flawed, struggling humanity who rose above every mean and petty thing in the end and found the strength to sacrifice himself for…[Read more]

Can’t imagine where you got that one from. Pretty intense stuff, huh?

Toxicology. 🙂