Thursday 20 November 2003

Pic of the day: Another silicon brainchild, a RPG character from Rubies of Eventide.

Daughters of Silicon

I was walking through the main street of Kristiansand when I heard this beautiful piece of music. I recognized it as the Ode to Joy, and for historical reasons I remember the first lines of the German lyrics:
Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium...
Elysium, as some of you may remember, is roughly the ancient Greek equivalent of Paradise. So "Tochter aus Elysium" would mean Daughter of Paradise, which is a really nice. But the voices in my head kept replacing Elysium with Silizium, the German name for silicon. You know, the stuff electronics are made of. Daughter of Silicon...

I guess it is kinda appropriate. After all, the novel I am writing is at least 50% (probably quite a bit more) about the female protagonist, a girl aged 18. If I had lived a normal healthy life, the way humans count these things, I guess they could have had children that age. Instead, I am creating them on my computer. Tochter aus Silizium, indeed.

On that note, chapters 18 and 19 are up. But 19 is pretty gross and creepy. I am very satisfied with it, but I fear there goes my PG13 rating, and not in a good way. Or perhaps I am just particularly sensitive to incestuous underage zombies. (There is really a good explanation for this. No, really. I hope it is evident from the book.)

For the record, not only don't I have any daughters, I have no sisters either. So you don't have to wonder about that. It's silicon all the way down.

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Somehow, my cosmic triplet Al Schroeder manages to stay within the Comics Code with his "silicon daughter", the comic book superheroine MindMistress.

So what is your story?