> Oh, and another thing: The "glaring logical flaw" that I spoke of earlier is in the story "Ironman." A signed copy of the manuscript goes to the first person to point it out here in the message forum.
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> I'll also send signed copies to anybody who can point out flaws I haven't yet noticed myself :-)
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> And to anyone who wins and thinks a signed copy is too pretentious from an unpublished writer, I'll send an unsigned equivalent number of blank pages for you to use in writing your own story.

Although a "winnah" has already been announced, I thought I'd mention something in the story that had me puzzled. To wit, the law of conservation of mass as it pertains to the strange cloud-like being's method of propulsion through space. It appears that the cloud expels a part of its own mass in order to propel itself in a particular direction -- how is that mass replenished? Of course, this isn't an inconsistency or flaw; it's just something that isn't vital to the story which is rightly left unexplained, and might have a perfectly reasonable explanation. The cloud could collect particles from space, or convert the mass of the moons that it sculpts for its own uses. So this isn't a criticism, just a question mark over the head of my cartoon avatar.

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