ANDROID: EARTH (Prologue) (Short Story) - 4/15/2013 11:29:45 AM
In your prologue to ANDROID: EARTH, you bring up an interesting quandary that has been vexing humanity for some time and has been written about by many science fiction writers from Isaac Asimov (I, Robot) to Michael Crichton (Terminal Man). Your opening shows good character development and the beginning of a conflict that will probably carry on through the rest of the novel.
While I have been faulted for having future events, like manned Mars exploration, come too soon in history, having your conflict in the year 2234, while safe from the problem that I have, appears to be a bit too late in the history of technology. The second thing that I noticed is the idea of a news conference with people and news reporters, however disguised or decorated, present. It seems to me by that time the need for people to meet face-to-face would be obsolete. But that would disrupt your whole premise that an interloper could make an attack from the crowd like it was 1850. Finally, I find the idea of a colony on the moon quite absurd because one sixth gravity will continue to vex medical science well beyond the year of your novel. Humans were meant to operate at one G, making even a Martian colony difficult, if not impossible.
You seem to be setting up the kind of futuristic drama that has all the ramifications of a 21st-century one set in a future time with appropriate technologies to make it believable if not scientifically accurate (thus, science fiction). I haven't read the whole book, but the drama that you appear to be offering will probably be well accepted by the current sci-fi crowd that is not so interested in scientific facts behind stories of scientific fantasy.
Ron
