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For example, if destitute Joseph publishes the video of the little girl dying and the queen is killed, he can't exactly return from the conference to take part in the funeral (he wouldn't be welcome), go to the hotel as the crown prince does, and then sneak away from the guards, to land on a slaver headed to Earth. His disappearance as crown prince is a big deal on the planet, especially since he was supposed to be crowned the next day. Who's going to miss some poor kid from the havens?

What do you guys think about making Joseph a poor teen from the havens, rather than royalty? He would have risen to his position of leader of the teenage cadet corps (the Crusaders) through his own hard work, rather than royal birth. The change would provide a very different POV for Joseph, and he'd be on a completely different side of the tracks from Apollo. Joseph's mother raised him on her own because the father was missing or dead. Joseph is very protective of her. Andrew is Joseph's best friend.

Thanks, Amy. I'll start reading tonight and respond tomorrow. I've cleared my schedule specifically for Amy Day. :-)

I've whittled it down to 67. I've reviewed the first 30.

Off to bed!

Just checked the page count on my notes file in preparation for v3. 74 bloody pages!

The list of names I gave are the generic ones. The brands are unlikely to be needed.

Hence the reason I immortalized you as Lady Kay: mother of Caligula, the Mob's own Kim Kardashian (note the K's in the name), Imperial assassin, and author.

A growing embolism.

I'll think about using multiple types of devices (watch, lenses, wearables). Contact lenses for measuring blood sugar already exist, so smart contact lenses will exist all over the place 2000 years from now. Probably also embedded technology in the body, although I doubt I'll explore it.

Swatches is really intended as a generic term, like smartwatch, except I don't want to get into copyright argument with a big company. Nevertheless, Acme will be a major manufacturer.

I don't recall a holodeck in Voyager.

Earbuds alone won't be enough. Other characters need to hear what the AI is saying. Technically, the wearer could speak what the contact lens displays in front of him/her. Avoids the complexity of people having to link up their lenses.

Why flickering holos? My holos project steady high quality images.

I think I'll include at least some references to smart contact lenses and wearables for a little realism, but will probably stick to smart watches for most intelligent interactions.

I'm now leaning toward wise thinker or wisething as the generic for smartwatches. Wise thinker would mostly be referred to as thinker. Anyone have a preference? See the original list above for others. Thinker is blandish sci-fi. Wisething is a little cuter, like splat inhibitors. Others above border on silly, which could be good, too. Wise doohickey, anyone?

Thank you, K, I appreciate the detailed feedback.

Following are possible names for futuristic smartwatches: The word wise would be used sparingly. The smartwatches would generally be referred to by the second part of the names below:

wisewatch
wisechrono
wiseticker
wise timekeeper
wise doitall (or wise do-it-all for easy reading)
wise doohickey
wise doodad
wise gadget
wise thing (or wisething)
wise gizmo
wise thinker
wise thingamajig

I kind of like wisething and thingamajig because they're slightly tongue in cheek, which fits the nature of the book. I could also say silly stuff like: Joseph looked at his thing.

Double-checked swatches and ewatches. The companies use sWatch and eWatch, so I may be okay with swatch and ewatch for the wrist.