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It has occured to me, as it may have to many others. If OSC were to die then we would be stuck not knowing the conclusions of some of our favourite stories. Yes conclusions are not nessecary, however this is still much frowned upon in my mind. So I propose a few ways of countering this.
1. Personal Army: As to not make it awkward it would be distanced surveilance that would prevent everything from car crashes, to assailants. This of course would be with full consent.
2. Backing up his conciousness: Who wouldn't like the idea of OSC's thoughts in a jar? New ideas would pump out like a magic machine of sci fi wonderment.
3. Chryogenic Freezing: If it works for Walt Disney why not him?
4. An Apprentice: Much like in the Karate Kid - he could have a young "daniel" to train and teach the ways of the writer.
5. Disco Revival: Obviously OSC's power comes from the greatness of Disco music, and would spawn such greatness in all the world.
Any other awesome ideas?
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I hope that OSC never feels the need to tie up ever loose end in his universes. That sort of thing rarely makes for good stories.
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quote:Originally posted by Lucky_Sean: 4. An Apprentice: Much like in the Karate Kid - he could have a young "daniel" to train and teach the ways of the writer.
Isn't that Geoff? Although the personal army would come in handy to keep Kevin J. Anderson away from him to 'help' add to his father's works.
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quote:Originally posted by Lucky_Sean: but then that would still age - see a paradox.
It didn't seem to be a problem in Wyrms. We'd just need to have someone to pump air, and someone else to take down dictation. Fairly simple, really.
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Well, Geoff Card did tell me, years ago, to hunt him down and put him out of his misery if I ever saw him doing the Brian Herbert thing. So, I think he's safe. Not because I can be relied upon to hunt him down [OSC please note!], but because he clearly doesn't want to.
Why not just clone OSC? Or write him a whole bunch of helpful, encouraging emails to tell him to write faster? One email an hour should do it, don't you think?
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Or we could just put him on somec. How does a ten years under, one month awake schedule sound to everyone?
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So that, from our perspective, he'd seem never write another thing?
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uploading his consiousness into a younger clone body like the Asgard do would probly work best though held have to be genetically altered for his mind to store the decades more memories he will have.
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Or we could just train him to do nothing but write. Then he'd turn out all necessary work in no time.
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Maybe his clones could do all he is doing and leave him concentrate only on his writing... that might be safer for him and for us..
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Maybe he could just have the books in his head, complete books inside his head. Send him outside of space and bring him back in, and poof! We'd have all the books and he could live a happy life.
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quote:Originally posted by CRash: Someone needs to invent the ansible so we can send him off on a spaceship.
Then everything he sent would be far apart
Well then how about we put the whole world on a spaceship and leave OSC on Earth. Then we can have all of his future works almost instantly.
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I have problems with crowded gymnasiums and hundreds of people. I can't imagine a crowded spaceship with billions.
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That's one idea, but if we send everyone away to give him time to write, we'll be missing out on his columns because he'll have no one to complain about. I don't want to come back to 300 articles on how uppity the squirrels have been getting now that all the people are gone, and how great it is to finally have a place for walking in downtown Greensboro.
I've got some other plans... has anybody ever seen that movie Misery...
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How would the illegal immigrants be illegal if they were on the moon? That's just about the dumbest idea, ever. Posts: 9912 | Registered: Nov 2005
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quote:Originally posted by dantesparadigm: That's one idea, but if we send everyone away to give him time to write, we'll be missing out on his columns because he'll have no one to complain about. I don't want to come back to 300 articles on how uppity the squirrels have been getting now that all the people are gone, and how great it is to finally have a place for walking in downtown Greensboro.
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Here's an idea. Have someone in the future send the collective works of OSC to our "present" OSC. That way he can continue where the "future" OSC left off. It would be an interesting paradox, we'd potentially have have hundreds of books (because each time the loop completes itself there would be more books to bring back). you'd have hundreds of books writen by OSC's that never existed....
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quote:Originally posted by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged: Here's an idea. Have someone in the future send the collective works of OSC to our "present" OSC. That way he can continue where the "future" OSC left off. It would be an interesting paradox, we'd potentially have have hundreds of books (because each time the loop completes itself there would be more books to bring back). you'd have hundreds of books writen by OSC's that never existed....
Yes but honestly, if that happened wouldn't that just be a great excuse to stop writing? I mean here you have a life's worth of work, you could retire and only work on what you want to.
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