User:Marlene38EE

Me, Myself and all the other stuff...
I'm a NerdGirl. A GirlGeek. Whatever the proper term is for a woman who loves sci-fi, that's me. Being born in 1983, it turns out I missed a LOT that I'm learning about now courtesy of my Husband and his friend John, who's staying with us. I've always wanted to be a Writer and am working on trying to make that happen. It's not easy, but I stick with it as best I can given Life's curveballs and things coming out of left-field.

I do play video games, but not too much. My favorites are HALO and KILLZONE. I have a copy of BAYONETTA somewhere...haven't had a chance to take it out of the wrapper yet and I bought it when it first came out.

Life, y'know??

In writing, I try very hard to stay away from the tired old cliche` elements in sci-fi and one-dimensionality. I also am the type who needs to know How and Why certain things work. We, in our world, are limited by certain things regarding technology so I feel the same 'framework' should apply in my works. I will allow for a ship's Engineer to modify things in a desperate bid to avoid some nasty fate, but within certain limits and at a price...if you're going to use machinery outside or beyond it's limits, there's going to be consequences. It's not really 'Hard' sci-fi, it's more 'over-easy'. I don't gloss over or hand-wave away technology, you can't do that in sci-fi. The re-imagined BSG got away with it, but I've noticed that most sci-fi aficianados want some kind of look 'under the hood' as it were. If they didn't, then all the sci-fi related 'Technical Manuals' and such would never have sold and there wouldn't be the eternal battle about Star Trek vs. Star Wars as to which could kick which's ass. For the record, I stay the hell OUT of that battle! I have my own gardens of imagination to tend to.

I love Firefly and have my own universe that was inspired by it, although I did borrow some characters and things from other universes--but after fleshing them out properly, which was never really done in their Home Universes, they're completely my own characters now. Ronon Dexyev in my SHRIKE Series is one example. He was liberated from the SG-Atlantis franchise, but then I went to work on him, fleshing him out, figuring out what made this 6'5 dreadlocked terror tick. I gave him hobbies, and other qualities to remove the one-dimensional aspect and make him a person. Albeit a very capable, very tough and scary person to be on the wrong side of. I never 'domesticated' Ronon, he's still primal and capable of easily killing a person, or a roomful of people, in the batting of an eye. But, contrasted against that, he's also a skilled woodcarver and painter in watercolors. Like any person, there's depth and contradiction in his character. I didn't want to re-create Jayne from Firefly, but I did want some 'muscle' on Shrike's crew to fill the role and have someone that Jayne might get along with.

I DON'T play with Time Travel. The Doctor does it, and he does it better than anyone. Also, I have a tough time keeping it all straight, so I'll leave Time Travel as a purely spectator thing. I DO play with Alternate Dimensionality, that's something I can keep track of and have a fair amount of fun with.

Like this; Spock opens a black hole in the Trek universe, and he and Nero get pulled through. Meanwhile, black holes being a transdimensional quantum effect, it opens in many other universes. In one, it swallows a Sovereignty BattleCarrier and drops it, say, in the HALO universe. There's also a thing about black holes like a prism where if something goes through and comes out elsewhere, a version of that thing can manifest for every dimensionality that black hole opens into--so the Narada could very well find a version of itself in my Sovereignty universe as well as having created the Alternate Trek reality of JJ Abrams.

Nero wouldn't like getting into a scrap with a BattleCarrier.

Transdimensional Quantum Reality Traffic Control. LOL

I hope you will follow me along as I traipse around and work on building worlds and realities and enjoy the tour.

Marlene38EE 20:00, March 20, 2012 (UTC)