Interesting concepts. I would opt that the more outlandish your ideas, the more they, as fiction need to be placed in an alternate universe (Everett's MWI) or an infinite universe. The more area you have, the more you permit the reader to populate their minds there. I envy your author's creativity, Mikes, because I'd rather read them then write them. Lazy me. How about this idea (idiots like myself are replete with great ideas, huh?). Look up Boltzmann Brains, and write a novella where God is one, very powerful, very smart, but is not the dude of the old books. Created our region of spacetime, including setting the solar system to produce life, on a huge (to humans) time scale. It would rock people's world, and I don't have an ending.
Dawkins even though their might be god-like intelligences in the universe, but he believe that such a person would evolve up by evolutionary reasons. Eh! I cannot afford to be so picky, and if it was true, it's true. Shrug! What am going to do, sue the Boltzmann Brain?? -----Original Message----- From: John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sun, Aug 10, 2014 3:29 pm Subject: Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers Liz: I wrote some books, several ones have been also published (mostly professional). Here is my experience - not a 'novel', but about one Sci-Fi I wrote ~1990~ in 2(!) languages and tried to publish in the US and in Central Europe with excellent publishing houses. Both markets rejected it (without knowing about each other) on the one matching ground: "Too much science and not enough sex" - for selling. It was about extremely cultured and constructive 'aliens' coming around for populating this Earth ~4b years ago and ~20,000+ years ago coming back to see what happened. They stayed for awhile. the creatures "ATE" each other - needed to be civilized! So I went around explaining the big achievements of the 3 (4?) 'homo's. I found my text later obsolete and hard-to-refurbish for the 2000+ time. Now that you are editing, keep this in mind! John M PS My 'real' success was a 'light' one about PLASTICS everywhere for pre- and early teenagers (late 1960s level). The publisher had an excellent illustrator who 'invented' a <polymer-guy> with as many hands as connectivity required for the appropriate item. JM On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:05 AM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: On 10 August 2014 02:15, spudboy100 via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: You don't need to alter your politics, simply be aware, that there appear to be rich people who seek a die-off. Oh yes indeed. That is the subject of my first novel, currently in the process of editing, good post apocalyptic fun set after those people have more or less achieved their aim. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
