For a myriad of reasons I’ve been debating whether to add to The Science in The Fiction after reading an article that mirrored reality with something I totally made up. After a second article appeared echoing a major plot device in an entirely different series I decided to go with it.
The first is from Shadow of the Gods, second in my Dragon Core series.
The Science: From New Scientist 8/12/26 Breast-augmentation method uses your own fat in dissolving scaffolds.
The Fiction: “I can use this connection I have to the universal web to accelerate the healing. It should reduce the pain.”
“How?”
“I’ll pull some of the web material from the atmosphere and meld it into your body where it will act as scaffolding while your muscle tissue rebuilds itself.”
“Will the outside feel different? When I touch it will I notice anything?”
“The first few times you take a shower you’ll notice it feels odd. As your body builds out the repair the filament structure will dissolve.
From The Metatron’s Army series
The Science: From the Scottish Sun: Volt From the Blue: Police Scotland Officers to be armed with new powerful ‘super Tasers’ that can fire ’10 darts’ from 45 ft away.
The Fiction: As written in Bind: Christine crouched by Dacan who was convulsing on the ground. He’d taken enough of the emitter blast to be in danger of shorting out.
Elizabeth Maxim 