Got distracted in the shower with how big a computer would be or should be, for the story, and why. Bigger implicates a certain antiquarian approach that I'm trying to leave behind at the moment, smaller makes more sense but doesn't look quite right. I think I've found a happy medium, with a small computer connected via wireless to expansive interface tech (screens, keyboard, et cetera) because the character using the device needs it big.
I think I can quantify exactly why I've never actively written SF before, chief reason being that the prose becomes quite mechanical if you're trying to explain or express some strange technology that would be so integrated into the character's life they wouldn't really think about it. I've been looking around for good examples.
I'm writing about junk food. I think the story actually revolves the bizarre diet of the future.
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Ben in Star Trek, whenever something technical comes around in the script, it is written: techno babble. The character goes off and strings together as many technical words to describe the situation at hand.
To eloquantisize the situation:
Fry: Well, usually on the show, someone would come up with a complicated plan, then explain it with a simple analogy.
Leela: Hmm. If we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and reconfigure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure.
Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon!
Fry: Of course! It's so simple!
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That's Melllvar with three ls.
I think I've done enough conventions to know how to spell "Melllvar."
Posted by m | January 17, 2007 9:06 AM
Posted on January 17, 2007 09:06
Treknobabble is a portmanteau of "Star Trek" and "technobabble" (itself a portmanteau of "technology" and "babble").
It is used humorously by fans of the various Star Trek television series, and disparagingly by its critics, to describe the infamous amount of pseudoscientific gibberish packed into many episodes. The term has escaped Star Trek fandom (and anti-fandom) and has become more commonly used in contexts where useless and incorrect "technical" explanations are given, typically in situations involving various pseudosciences or in science fiction writing. Piller filler is a synonym, a derivative of producer Michael Piller's name. A similar term is wantum physics, a derivative of quantum physics, referring to science that basically accomplishes whatever the writer wants it to accomplish.
Posted by wikipediamatt | January 17, 2007 9:09 AM
Posted on January 17, 2007 09:09
Thank you for the comic books. They were awesome! Batman is one of the best psychopaths. I also like the wacked Doom Patrol. The acid bike? Hello! And Hellboy was really funny. That bit about the ghosts not wanting to mess with him? Hillarious. Thanks again. I bought some more postcards, and I want to send one over, but I'm unsure about the suitability of the postcards I bought. I'm unsure if you are the target audience. Nothing aside, when I send something, I want it to be specific. I scrounged up some bizarre postcards from the strange art museum in Harajuku, but I may have to go back and pilfer another exhibit. Perhaps this Friday.
Posted by m | January 17, 2007 9:13 AM
Posted on January 17, 2007 09:13
Glad you liked the comix!
I'm trying to avoid heavy technobabble as a rule. The story's going to be pretty earth-centric rather than spacey, I think.
Posted by ben | January 17, 2007 1:39 PM
Posted on January 17, 2007 13:39