Story 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thursday 27 September, 2012
Story Idea: Heaven is Other People
In a world where all forms of religion have been outlawed, worship has become an illicit underworld activity, theology has become a subversive and dangerous idea, and faith an addiction.
Monday 10 September, 2012
10 Ideas for a Time Travel Story
10 quick ideas for a time travel story. Everything from colonies in the distant past and future to “Jesus vs the Time Police”.
Wednesday 05 September, 2012
Story Idea: Final Interview
Near-future story about an agency that sends an interviewer back in time to personally arrange “final interviews” with famous people from history.
Monday 27 August, 2012
Story Idea: The Andromeda Plot
It starts off with the arrival of a strange object of unknown origin and the subsequent fireball which is atmospheric entry. The object is found by locals of a nearby town which all too quickly becomes infected by a strange biological agent…
Friday 03 August, 2012
Story Idea: The Space Miners of Ahriman-108
Ahriman-108 has turned soft men into harden veterans due to the hellish environment both within and without its network of mines. However, men can only be pushed so far before they decide to push back….
Thursday 26 July, 2012
Story Idea: The Hive Programme
The Hive Programme proposes that mankind move underground until the ice age thaws. The programme developers draw up an unbelievable but achievable plan to create underground mega cities that will sustain life for generations to come.
Friday 20 July, 2012
Story Idea: The Elder Wakes
The decision between whether or not the children survive would seem to give us two possible directions for this story; a survival story and an action-packed revenge thriller.
Thursday 28 June, 2012
Story Idea: The Other Me Drives a Porsche
Simon volunteers for a radical and experimental new cancer treatment. This treatment uses teleportation technology to remove the tumors from a patient’s body.
Monday 25 June, 2012
Story Idea: Meet the Beamies
In this storyline, humans long ago gave up on developing FTL travel or using suspended animation to ferry people across the stars. Instead, we use TeleBeamers, or Beamies for short.
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