Thanks for your reply!
Well for now I'm probably within the law with terms crossing between my work and OA, there's exoself which has been cleared, and synth which has more or less the same meaning as an artificially created physical being and it probably falls in the same category of words obvious enough to be "allowed" in any piece of literature.
But sure, I'll ask when necessary, here or on the Discord, and as I said I'm comfortable with saying that I took inspiration from Orion's Arm just as I am with Egan. Writing fiction can't emerge from a vacuum anyway, and it's always a good thing to link fiction together as in "if you like X, you might like Y".
Well for now I'm probably within the law with terms crossing between my work and OA, there's exoself which has been cleared, and synth which has more or less the same meaning as an artificially created physical being and it probably falls in the same category of words obvious enough to be "allowed" in any piece of literature.
But sure, I'll ask when necessary, here or on the Discord, and as I said I'm comfortable with saying that I took inspiration from Orion's Arm just as I am with Egan. Writing fiction can't emerge from a vacuum anyway, and it's always a good thing to link fiction together as in "if you like X, you might like Y".