One of my betas said that Egon's scientific journals weren't detailed enough to be convincing, and if I was writing it now, I'd totally stuff in more technobabble. It's not crucial to the story, but the lack annoys me when I reread it now.
I've never been how much sense can be made in the story about the technobabble conceit the narrative is based on - the idea is, Egon & Ray have made this device (the transchronovisuoscope!) that can look at objects in other universes/timelines, extrapolating from objects in this one. So if you put a pencil into it, you can see what the pencil looks like in parallel timelines, whether it's shorter or been broken or whatever. So they've been putting in their journals and notebooks to see what's been written in them in the other timeline.
I've always wanted to write an original scifi story with a similar plotline, but I've never worked out the kinks...
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Re: An oldie but a goodie
Date: 2009-02-06 05:39 pm (UTC)One of my betas said that Egon's scientific journals weren't detailed enough to be convincing, and if I was writing it now, I'd totally stuff in more technobabble. It's not crucial to the story, but the lack annoys me when I reread it now.
I've never been how much sense can be made in the story about the technobabble conceit the narrative is based on - the idea is, Egon & Ray have made this device (the transchronovisuoscope!) that can look at objects in other universes/timelines, extrapolating from objects in this one. So if you put a pencil into it, you can see what the pencil looks like in parallel timelines, whether it's shorter or been broken or whatever. So they've been putting in their journals and notebooks to see what's been written in them in the other timeline.
I've always wanted to write an original scifi story with a similar plotline, but I've never worked out the kinks...