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- From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
- Subject: TP research
- Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:08:00 +0000
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- This is a question for all you godless scientists out there:
-
- Bearing in mind the following, which has been established before or will be
- established in Men At Arms (first draft finished, hurray!): trolls are
- silicon-based and their brains remsemble computers rather more than our
- brains do -- THEN
- What is the troll equivalent of a drug?
- What is the troll equivalent of alcohol?
-
- I think maybe we'd be looking for some kind of chemical impurity found in
- silicon -- what causes a batch of silicon to be discarded? We need something
- that theoretically disorientates/mildly poisons in small quantities and kills
- in larger amounts? (And it needs to be a substance -- not just heat, which
- I'm already using in the book) It would be NICE if its something
- commonplace, like the sour milk 'drug' in Alien Nation.
-
- Since I know there's experts of everything out there, let discussion
- commence!
-
- Terry
-