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librarian-faust t1_jd73psz wrote

Reply to comment by Susceptive in [WP] A colony ship with 5000 human passengers in stasis is heavily damaged in a meteor shower. While the onboard computer does not have the raw materials needed for repairs, it calculates that it has a very large amount of organic matter and a genetics lab. A solution path is now being executed... by lordhelmos

Wow. I feel like my entry had the same idea as yours, I just did talking heads with an optimistic AI, whilst yours leaned HARD into the horror.

I love it.

((I'm halfway tempted to repost mine as a comment answer to yours, now. Mine's up in the "non story comments" area because it's 99.5% talking heads and that's lazy writing.))

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Susceptive t1_jd8c8k3 wrote

I saw your post up there! Your disclaimer of "Mostly talking heads" kind of made me do that dog-confused-head-tilt thing, because the whole thing was pretty great. You absolutely could have moved that to the main comment section and gotten some good read-throughs. Heck, »I« read it and had this sort of mixed horror/amusement thing going on the whole way.

It's impossible for me to tell you 100% something would or wouldn't "work" as a story. Because I have no freaking idea why anything takes off around here! But I can tell you I liked it, and gave ya an up-arrow.

(Took a glance through your profile-- ohhhh, you're really flirting with being a semi-regular writer! And you're not bad at all, this is readable stuff. Don't stop.)

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librarian-faust t1_jd8t74q wrote

Thanks! I appreciate the compliments. I should be more confident next time. :)

And yes, I like reading stuff in Writing Prompts, and I've been trying to write here too. It's fun. Not every prompt I try gets posted - sometimes I run out of steam - but I've posted most of them.

Thanks again.

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