A Fiery Gospel

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

I've just published the first chapter of a fan fiction novel up on fanfiction.net
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11420302/1/

I've got the entire story written, I'm slowly proof-reading each chapter and will get it all posted soon. This is a rather different kind of story, and because it has rather strong political overtones I decided NOT to put it up here (look what the moderators have done to another author for that sin).

The first third of this first chapter WAS posted here as a stand alone story ('The Hurricane Hunters'), the rest of this chapter expands on that story.

This story will also deal with yet another theme I've wondered about, something that might be a bit controversial, especially with the military now developing A.I. weapon systems, whether a robot like Atom under extreme circumstances could take a human life. In one of his last novels, Asimov decided that a robot could, and he invented the 'zeroth law' of robotics to explain how and why.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

The second chapter of the novel is posted.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11420302/2/A-Fiery-Gospel

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Chapter 3 is posted
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11420302/3/A-Fiery-Gospel

[Little Brown Fox]

Just by the by, the word is "piqued". That's a common mistake.

Also, there is one instance where the male patient gets called a "her" before being referred to as a "him" again in the same sentence.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Rats, thought I caught all of that. Thanks.

[Little Brown Fox]

You're welcome. The whole "peaked" thing is a mistake that a lot of people make, for some reason... At least you got "home in" right. Also, I'm a little wary of where this plot might be going... and I feel the need to point out that in the 2003 series at least, robots already were capable of destruction and violence; it doesn't seem all that unlikely that they would be able to make that next step without any outside assistance: Atom himself almost killed Lamp; this was unedited from the English version.

Also, what do you have against GMOs? Those aren't the problem, near as I can tell. There's nothing really wrong with them; people are just fearmongering. Of course, there are some unscrupulous companies out there; and I'm sure that things could be dangerous, depending... Idk; I've just always heard that that was being blown out of proportion. Were anything to go wrong, it could be fixed; and the benefits outweigh the supposed risks. That's what I think, anyhow. :T

I may have to end up deleting this post; I might be starting to sound too political, even though I was reasoning off of science...

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Also, I'm a little wary of where this plot might be going... and I feel the need to point out that in the 2003 series at least, robots already were capable of destruction and violence; it doesn't seem all that unlikely that they would be able to make that next step without any outside assistance: Atom himself almost killed Lamp; this was unedited from the English version.

True, but even Atlas never actually 'Killed' anybody in cold blood, or in anger. In all of the anime's (especially the '63 version) band-aids magically appear on any character that has been subject to some sort of violence, such as Atom throwing them into a jail cell or paddy wagon. (actually Loony Toons goes the limit with characters shown to have died by literally pushing up petunias, or rising out of their bodies playing a harp, something Tezuka never did). "Cartoon" violence is one thing, not what I'm referring to at all.

Also, what do you have against GMOs? Those aren't the problem, near as I can tell. There's nothing really wrong with them; people are just fearmongering. Of course, there are some unscrupulous companies out there; and I'm sure that things could be dangerous, depending... Idk; I've just always heard that that was being blown out of proportion. Were anything to go wrong, it could be fixed; and the benefits outweigh the supposed risks. That's what I think, anyhow. :T

Well not to go too deeply into this, there MUST be a good reason why many countries have banned the importation of any GMO'ed farm products from the US. (IIRC that includes Japan).

There are two reasons why this stuff exists (at least for crops). One genetic modification makes the crop immune to roundup weed killer, so the farmer can use that nasty stuff to control weeds. Believe me you do NOT want to eat anything that has been exposed to that poison!

A second genetic mod gives the plant the ability to produce its own insecticide. Supposedly, this gene was found in nature and imported from plants that already had developed this ability by natural selection. However, we still don't know for sure that humans are not effected by this plant enzyme, many of us may be sensitive to it with dire results.

People have a RIGHT to know what's in the food they buy, yet Monsanto is behind the 'DARK' act now going though congress that would make it illegal for states to require that all food containing GMOs be so labeled. Producers would still have the right to do this if the public demanded it, but they would not be legally FORCED to do so.

[Little Brown Fox]

Well, of course people have the right to know what's in their food before they eat it. And the fact that they're leaning on it seems kind of suspicious; but that doesn't always mean that it's necessarily bad. I believe that Monsanto has some practices that I'd be more concerned about than GMOs; I just can't remember what it was that I learned about them...

Anyways, I wasn't talking about the 60's series at all (thought that does have some content that makes me a little uncomfortable). I was referring specifically to the much more serious 2003 version, where Lamp (called Drake in the dub, I believe) was trying to make a getaway, or an assault in some kind of war cruiser-type thing, and Atom, clearly angry, raised his cannon on him. While he clearly wanted to hurt him, he thought better of it and instead fired the cannon in such a way that destroyed the weapon that Lamp (I think it was Lamp) was using to hold everyone else back. I think he may have attacked a truck full of robots in order to free them once, or he at least tried to stop them; and just before Tenma shut him off, he destroyed part of the facility that melted down old robots, in a fit of apparent rage. I'm not saying that it's something that he'd normally do, but it's certainly something that he and others like him are completely capable of: destruction, and possibly even homicide, on a mass scale. The whole point of that version of the series was that he was a robot that could think and feel and do for himself. Of course, it sounds like you're mixing canon a bit from the other incarnations; but even then, he's shown some pretty questionable behavior, at least in the 50's and 60's. There wasn't always bandaids all over his victims. And death was never really played as a joke in that series, either. Nor was it reversible, as in Looney Toons and shows like it.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11420302/4/A-Fiery-Gospel

chapter 4

[Little Brown Fox]

Part of a sentence is missing towards the bottom; since FF doesn't allow for copy-pasting anymore, though, I can't show you which one. Also, not too far down from this sentence, Moonsufu gets misspelled as "Monnsufu".

What is "konbanwa"? And how is "sumimasen" different from "gomenasai(sp?)"?

The proper phrase is "en route".

This was something that happened earlier, but there was another word that I didn't really recognize. I believe it was supposed to be a negative response; I do know, from part of an online learning program that I never finished, that in Japanese, "no" is "ie". I think. Seems I've forgotten how to spell it, exactly; but I don't feel like going back to that program because I feel like something like Spanish might be easier for me to learn... but iirc, they wouldn't let me quit the Japanese lessons first... at least it's all free. The site is Memrise, as I recall, btw.