I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.