Is that a scam or just a very lazy reader? By the way, I'm enjoying Alien Clay and actually reading it. It sounds hauntingly familiar to me after working 25 years in a university. You captured perfectly what you escaped.

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Is this idea of a conscious planet similar or different from what happens in the famous SF novel Solaris by Stanislaw Lem?

I didn't mean that I doubt your sincerity. I meant that it requires permission to ask a question. I am intrigued by minds that can portray a genuine sense of the alien, the other, the different, the unknown, like Polish writer Stanislaw Lem in Solaris and you in your novel Alien Clay.

I understand. Yes, it's not my place to ask.

So what kind of editor do you need to be the kind of writer you want to be?

Would you ever write a novel where the narrator makes frequent typos?

Why would editors object to a pun? If some readers don't get it, why does that matter?

What's the third choice?