Super Soldier Spy

It's Sunday and it's tough to think of cool things to say to the world on a Sunday when it's like heaven to just sit in my air-conditioned house OUT OF the sun and OFF a sizzling hot roof ;-). Might I add that Ranger Buddy, who doesn't know what OFF means, is on a roof somewhere, putting tar paper on? The man is a machine.

So random thoughts today:

Here is an article about sex in teenage chick lit stories:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8962686/ which talks about how your teenagers are being corrupted by these books, subsidized by your money, that deal with teen group oral sex, etc. I showed this article to a couple of my girlfriends and their response? "So where do I order these books?" Hmm. Where is the hysteria?

Read an article about the advances in biotechnology, which is the subject of a lot of science fiction stories--bionic man, Robocop, etc. It always fascinates me that so much science fiction from ten and twenty years ago is becoming reality these days, although not quite in the same way it was fictionalized.

For example, when I first read about virtual reality, the concept of my proposal WIP (work-in-progress), it was in the early eighties and it was in a short science fiction story in which VR was used as a punishment tool to disobedient citizens. The story caught my imagination, the idea of not knowing reality and fantasy was exactly what a philosophy major always love to play with, and this tale has stayed with me all these decades (Eeek, can I take back that last word?).

Yet, virtual reality is a word bandied around in modern vernacular by ordinary folks these days. People know its basic uses--the way we can see a house in 3-D on the computer, games that you can participate in with your friends, even the high concept of mind sex and other odd fantasies, thanks to movies like The Matrix. And virtual reality is used for flight simulation programs to help pilots in training. So something that seems so exotic in science fiction has become so darn normal.

Hopefully my use of a "darn normal" virtual reality theme in my super soldier spy story will have enough of a twist to catch the interest of my readers. I'm blessed that so many who enjoyed the mind-boggling and quick-tempoed story arcs of TV shows like Alias and Buffy TVS also have bonded with my world. I love the quirkiness and the almost-paranormal feel of Alias (with the Rimbaldi project stuff) and the absolute fearlessness in trying something new of Buffy. So I do think my introducing the super soldier spy, virtual reality, CIA mind control, as well as other dark spy topics will give readers something different than just a spy/military adventure. That's my hope, anyway. ;-)

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