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I couldn't get beyond the second paragraph; asserting that your main character is a Super Genius living in a Perfect World is not a good way to make me care about what happens to him.

One SF author (Damon Knight?) once said that when he has an idea for a science-fictional world, he asks himself, "who does this hurt?" and that becomes the main character of the story.



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