Prometheus98876

Yes, you are right. I would have to careful to make it interesting. However, I do have various rough ideas on how to ensure it is still interesting. That is one of the advantages to using the science fiction medium, I can include some interesting events using some interesting technology to help spice those events up. And although it is to be my first novel, I am far from a novice at writing, I have been working on my skills as a writer for 12 years so far, throughout various drafts that lead ultimately to this. Having said that, this is far more ambitous than the majority of those ideas. Of course, I find the section on Literature in the Romantic Manisfeto to be of some help, affirming theories of my own and helping me with a few points I had not considered in quite the way Ayn Rand presents it. I will have to prove myself when this is done. Which I hope to be about the time I graudate, or very long after, so we are looking at about three or four years more. Thanks for the comments.

I use OpenOffice quite extensively. As a university student whom is studying alot of Mathematics, I find the Maths component quite useful. As others have said, it is obviously much cheaper than Microsoft Office products and in most cases about as functional. It handles mst Office documents correctly as well, which is nice. It is updated fairly regularly by good software developers and gains the benefits of being Open Source (ie it is easier to customise and bebug the code). And I am not too sure about this because I have not needed support for this product, but I would think that getting support for OpenOffice is easier in at least some countries around the world. Here in New Zealand for instance, getting support from Microsoft on their products is not a pleasent exprience, or a reasonably timely one, even online.

This is in regards to an idea for a future novel that I am currently working on. I thought that this would be the best place for this (however I am new to this site, so correct me if I am mistaken please). The theme is in essence the importance of philosophy to every human being, and what might happen if one attempts to live without it. ' It is a science fiction work, set 50-100 years in the future, and features alot of technologies that seem fantasic by todays standard, and some that might be relatively fantastic for the time period. We start off with the brillant young (about 25 years old) Robotic Scientist, Lycynda Amross finishing an android. This android has been equipped with her latest invention, which is basically a bio-mechanical brain. She boots up the robot, and it comes to 'life' and things proceed from here, with it becoming apparent that the robot is mentally very human, with rational faculties and all that. It is not equipped with the electronics that ensure its survivual, ie like man can only survive using its mind. The robot demonstrates what philosophies are needed for what i consider to be the ideal man (im sure most of you would agree with my conception). Eventually a rival of her builds a similar robot, but one without the philosophical abilities or free will of the other robot. Essentially it is a slave to the will of its creators, acting only on their instruction. Hence it is a slave to its creators acting only on their 'divine will' (so in a sense the novel might also compare rationalism and religion). That is a very basic outline of what I have planned so far...please do tell me what you think and whether you have any problems/questions...