Science Fiction Ideas Category
Monday 08 April, 2013
Invasion of the Body Renters
Alfonso Posadas shares his idea for a slightly different take on the invasion of alien parasites trope.
Wednesday 03 April, 2013
Story Idea: The Green Scourge
Humanity fails to prevent a medium-sized asteroid collision and suffers unforeseen consequences in this story idea by Jay Brown.
Saturday 16 March, 2013
Planet Profile: Boreas
This FICTIONAL planet has extremely large polar regions. Human habitation is restricted to a thin band of temperate climate around the planet’s equator.
Tuesday 05 March, 2013
Story Idea: The Gamification of Ghetto Construction
In the midst of a labor shortage, the building of the ghettos cannot progress quickly enough. To increase production, the construction company turns to a revolutionary idea; they “gamify” the construction project.
Saturday 02 March, 2013
Extra-planetary Nature Reserves
If you want to colonize a new planet, travelling across the cosmos is only the first hurdle you’ll have to face. You’ll also have to fight government bureaucracy, hippies and eco-warriors, and probably some deadly alien microbes too.
Wednesday 13 February, 2013
Story Idea: A Simpler Story Than Lost
The set-up is very much like that of Lost. We begin with a number of plane crash survivors arriving on an island.
Monday 04 February, 2013
Science Fiction Ideas by Brandon Lampitoc
Six brief sci-fi ideas written by science fiction writer Brandon Lampitoc.
Wednesday 23 January, 2013
Story Idea: A Shipload of Morlocks
Imagine if H.G Wells’ The Time Machine were set aboard a spaceship. That’s how this idea came about. Instead of a machine that travels through time, we have stasis chambers, and instead of a Victorian inventor, we have an interstellar pioneer.
Thursday 17 January, 2013
Covert Communication Via Viral Infection
Ilan Scheinkman shares his idea about how virus DNA can be used to send covert messages.
Sunday 13 January, 2013
Cities of the Future: The Domed City of Mir
Russian construction firm AB Elise has proposed turning one of the world’s largest opencast mines into a futuristic domed city.
Tuesday 01 January, 2013
Cities of the Future: Floating Cities
Tower blocks needn’t be the only answer; it is possible that as well as expanding our settlements into the sky, we might also expand outward onto the oceans. This could be done by constructing enormous floating cities.
Saturday 29 December, 2012
Cities of the Future: Highway Cities
Might future settlements become entirely linear, being shaped to fit the highways rather than highways being shaped to serve the city? Might the city and the highway actually become the same thing?
Thursday 06 December, 2012
Planet Profile: Brunhild
Brunhild is a FICTIONAL world famed for its mineral wealth and its spectacular and unusual glass-volcanoes. It is a moon of the gas giant Odin.
Saturday 17 November, 2012
Story Idea: A Game of Gur’Faflas Hold’em
A story about alien invasion, galactic politics, and high-stakes gambling.
Saturday 17 November, 2012
5 Ideas for an Alien Invasion Story
Five quick and simple ideas for an alien invasion story.
Wednesday 07 November, 2012
Creatures of Owen’s World: Siphonografts
Siphonografts are aquatic life-forms native to the planet Oblik IV (commonly known as Owen’s World). They are similar in many ways to the corals and siphonophores of Earth.
Thursday 01 November, 2012
Story Idea: The Hozakan Missile Crisis
A complex tale of subterfuge, manipulation, aliens, alien fascists, nuclear weapons and space-lasers.
Wednesday 24 October, 2012
10 Ideas for Alternate History Scenarios
10 simple ideas for alternate history scenarios and settings.
Friday 19 October, 2012
Alien Profile: The Yerto
An ancient civilization native to Mars which went extinct several million years ago.
Monday 08 October, 2012
Story Idea: Alien Appropriation
Alfonso Posadas Jr. shares his take on the ideas used in the Alien Nation franchise, merging the ideas of alien citizenship on Earth with the threat of global terrorism.
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