/lit/ - Literature

I'm working on some of the pseudo-science in my story, mostly from a biological standpoint; trying to figure out whether I should substitute 'spirits'/'spiritualism', as a lazy way of justifying an organism's ability/process of nuclear fission within something entirely organic and primitive. I know that if I go down the wrong path then it will (in the future) impede how the theme of instability/illness caused by overheating will affect one of the more important characters. I'm feeling pretty conservative about it, though; I don't want to remove the spiritualism factor entirely from this character and his race, because he's been conceptualized this way for so long. I do have a moth-balled idea however, that I could reshape to help sculpt the narrative into the way I want it to be.