"Sea Wasp" <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>
>
> Here's a question for you. Some time in the future, you're handed the
> op****tunity to choose one character, or perhaps an amalgam of a couple
of
> characters, from some fictional source and build him or her. (we'll
leave
> aside the morality of doing this -- assume if you like that you're
someone
> with your fiction tastes but a big blind spot in that specific area).
>
> You have Almost Sufficiently Advanced Tech available: you can construct
> human genetics to produce a given appearance (height, weight, color of
> hair and eyes, etc.), you can splice in traits of other species or make
> new ones. You CANNOT violate the laws of physics, but you have advanced
> nanotech available to PUSH the laws of physics, and some Near
Unobtainium
> (ring-carbon composite) which is super strong and tough; you also have
> room-temperature superconductors. If you like, you can put them in a
> controlled, VR-capable environment (including sensory inputs) which will
> simulate their "native location" and allow you to at least partially
make
> up for not controlling the laws of time and space.
>
> Restrictions: The character must be from some SF/F type source that was
> popular during its release (or is well-known from some general source --
> Hercules, for instance). So, for instance, my character Verne Domingo
> wouldn't be eligible, but Honor Harrington is.
>
> So who do you choose?
>
> --
Seems to me that if you want him/her/it to actually do something,
it would be better to first conjure up an appropriate context.
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