Great Chapter!
I was going to complain that it was so short, but I guess it just seemed that way.
Doug's discovery of Sylvia's identity was a bit hard to swallow for my taste. Maybe some mentioning of other circumstantial evidence or even some sort of intuiton would make it easier. He cartainly had much more information on Priss then on Sylvia.
The other thing that struck me is the value of the diamond he left with lisa for payment. Leaving out the whole rant, about how diamonds are artificially kept overvalued and how it is almost impossible to sell a diamond for even a small fraction of the price you bought it for in our world. How is the value of the diamond affected by things like nano-facs couldn't you just make a load of diamonds the same way you make engine parts or boomer-disguises? Is the stuff Doug made at his jobs for personal use far more expensive then we have been let to belive or are there some technical problems that make it impossible to manufacture gemstones with them?
It will be interesting to see how the boomer-liberty thing spreads now that the genie is out of the bottle; especially how it interacts with other boomer models like Jennifer who already is rather free. The revelation about Sylvia's status at this point opens the possibility that she might be affected, too.
I also hope Lisa has some good explanations ready about how she did not reveal the Sabers secrets to Doug and how it really is just a coincidence that he entrusted the task of finding the Knight-Sabers to someone who actually knew them.
All in all I can't wait to read how this all plays out.
I was going to complain that it was so short, but I guess it just seemed that way.
Doug's discovery of Sylvia's identity was a bit hard to swallow for my taste. Maybe some mentioning of other circumstantial evidence or even some sort of intuiton would make it easier. He cartainly had much more information on Priss then on Sylvia.
The other thing that struck me is the value of the diamond he left with lisa for payment. Leaving out the whole rant, about how diamonds are artificially kept overvalued and how it is almost impossible to sell a diamond for even a small fraction of the price you bought it for in our world. How is the value of the diamond affected by things like nano-facs couldn't you just make a load of diamonds the same way you make engine parts or boomer-disguises? Is the stuff Doug made at his jobs for personal use far more expensive then we have been let to belive or are there some technical problems that make it impossible to manufacture gemstones with them?
It will be interesting to see how the boomer-liberty thing spreads now that the genie is out of the bottle; especially how it interacts with other boomer models like Jennifer who already is rather free. The revelation about Sylvia's status at this point opens the possibility that she might be affected, too.
I also hope Lisa has some good explanations ready about how she did not reveal the Sabers secrets to Doug and how it really is just a coincidence that he entrusted the task of finding the Knight-Sabers to someone who actually knew them.
All in all I can't wait to read how this all plays out.