The Doctor's at Delphi...

Part of my book deals with DNA enhancements and the mixing of Animal DNA with human DNA... but that's just a cool premise. What I'm really getting at, or trying to, is to explore the idea of arrogant doctors, blind faith in them, and unfounded paranoia about them. It's been done many times, (I can't tell anyone about my novel without them saying someone else has already done that - not that I would know, I don't read much sci-fi) I hope to give another interesting story that touches on many different aspects of this idea.

One of the things I do to keep myself motivated to write about the future is to read up on the latest research and news stories that illustrate what I'm getting at.

My Ares character is very religious and very anti-science... He's the one who has all these really outlandish conspiracy theories and thinks all scientists are out to do is mess with what he believes is God's perfect natural world order. At the same time he uses some science to make his game better...

Another main character is himself a trained doctor who is very humble, very good at what he does, but unfortunately a bit naive and mixed up with the wrong people and has to decide what he's going to do. He's what we hope to see in doctors (minus the naive part).

The primary antagonist believes whatever he can do through science, it is up to him to decide if he should do it or not. He is genuinely trying to do good for society, but he gets a bit mixed up along the way because of his blind faith in his own abilities.

The secondary antagonists are those that try to use science and manipulate it's findings for their own purposes, and those that refuse to believe the science that doesn't fit into their agenda.

*edit real life story I was talking about*

To anyone who read what I wrote, I decided to make this blog only about my novel and fiction... if I start getting into the real stuff going on, it's bound to get me distracted. Maybe once more of the novel is written...

Julia