Comments on: PATHROS: Setting Outline http://dangerbutton.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pathros-setting-outline/ Where you can take a look into my wacky head... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:13:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: dangerbutton http://dangerbutton.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pathros-setting-outline/#comment-3 dangerbutton Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:05:29 +0000 http://dangerbutton.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-3 Thank you for the suggestion. As should be expected, I slept through a lot of High School chemistry... so, uh, my work is a bit shy of "hard science"... Thank you for the suggestion. As should be expected, I slept through a lot of High School chemistry… so, uh, my work is a bit shy of “hard science”…

]]> By: Kirt http://dangerbutton.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pathros-setting-outline/#comment-2 Kirt Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:07:17 +0000 http://dangerbutton.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-2 Interesting ideas. One suggestion: Don't identify aiexyn as an element. That is a class of matter with established rules of feasibility and requires a viable place in the periodic table. It is too hard to make it jive with known science and will draw flames from chemistry/physics nerds (such as once I was)). Just describe it as a very mysterious, complex compound (like the spice on Arrakis (aka Dune)) and leave it at that. Being too detailed with chemical particulars will only get in your way. If you really want to get into chemical specifics, Ben's wife, Bryony, is a chemist and a good writer -- she might be able to offer good guidance. It might be useful, in any case, to get her ideas in general on such an interesting substance as aiexyn. (She blogs at http://www.famillewilde.blogspot.com/) Interesting ideas. One suggestion: Don’t identify aiexyn as an element. That is a class of matter with established rules of feasibility and requires a viable place in the periodic table. It is too hard to make it jive with known science and will draw flames from chemistry/physics nerds (such as once I was)). Just describe it as a very mysterious, complex compound (like the spice on Arrakis (aka Dune)) and leave it at that. Being too detailed with chemical particulars will only get in your way.

If you really want to get into chemical specifics, Ben’s wife, Bryony, is a chemist and a good writer — she might be able to offer good guidance. It might be useful, in any case, to get her ideas in general on such an interesting substance as aiexyn. (She blogs at http://www.famillewilde.blogspot.com/)

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