I'm baffled by anyone who could find the first parts of FS1 boring. I suppose if you're not used to the way good SF throws you into high tech without long explanations of how everything works, and if you also had a limited imagination, it could confuse you -- but to be boring? No. Sorry. It would be boring in the same way bungee jumping or make up sex is boring. As in, not at all. That powered armor chase sequence is one of the bits of fiction I keep in my mind as I take the first steps toward creating my own written work. Not the details, but the pacing and the relentlessness of it. It was brilliant work.

As to Plague Year -- very different style. It was rich and deep but it was also a little slow and depressing sometimes. That's not always bad. You were describing something slow and depressing.

Ha ha. Thanks, man!

Now... if we could just write about talking dogs experiencing dream sequences as they bungie jump while simultaneously having make-up sex from inside powered suits of armor (shaped for canines, of course), *then* we would really have something!!!!!

Jeff

I'm pretty sure Gibson did that already.

Oh, crap, that's right. I *knew* I'd read that story somewhere... :)

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

-- Stanley Kubrick