Not much happening...

I did some more characters so I now have 110/1400 characters complete. My first 100 characters have American surnames. I've decided for my next 100 characters will have French last names. This is my attempt at getting some racial/ethnic/cultural diversity since the default especially in science fiction it seems to be white.

Does anyone know of any books where the main character is not a white American guy? The only book that comes to mind that I've attempted to read is Aftermath by Levar Burton who played Geordie LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm always looking for some great reads so if you have one please leave a comment.

My current W.I.P.

I'm currently working on a mult-generation space colony story. I do not have a word count as of yet as I am still working on world building and back story. What I am doing now is creating characters and doing research. I have 1400 original colonists while not all of them will be in the novel it is important to keep the genetics straight since I am not using cryogenics to get them to the new planet. So far I have: 52/1400 character profiles done.

I will post the links I am using to keep my characters random in my links list. One of them is a random number generator and the other two deal with names. One is common surnames and the other is a random name generator.

One book I'm using so far for research is, Nanofuture: What's Next for Nanotechnology by: J. Storrs Hall, PhD. Chief Scientist of Nanorex, Inc., Fellow of the Molecular Engineering Research Institute.