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... is that not only do you get to create villains, you get to KILL them. I just this weekend killed off the main villain in Threshold (if that really ends up being the title...) and I reread the sequence yesterday and I'm very happy with it. Mr. Richard Fitzgerald meets just about as bad an end as one can imagine.

Threshold is just about done -- I am pretty sure I will finish it this weekend. And then I send it to Eric and immediately ask Toni to give me a contract for Demons of the Past. Which is at 40k already, so I have a head start on writing it.

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I remember watching Spider-man 2 in the theater (it's been out long enough that I can presume that everyone has either seen it or doesn't care, right?...), seeing Doc Ock fall into a river literally on top of a runaway fusion reaction¹ that nobody could possibly survive, and turning to my friend and remarking, "Well, we'll be seeing him again."

¹Which they were dropping into the river so as to put it out. Because, you know, water extinguishes fusion.

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Water is actually a good choice for shutting down just about ANYTHING that's dependent on maintaining some set energy concentration. For comic-book level science, that was dead on. It was running fine in AIR, but dump a continuous supply of dihydrogen monoxide into the mix and it chokes.