Re: Synopsis of a Book I Want
- From: Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall)
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:07:00 GMT+1
Quadibloc <jsavard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina_H...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall) wrote:
Quadibloc <jsavard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And to have a story you do need some problem or threat.
As I said, there could be the odd mad scientist out to conquer the
world, like Kil-Lor or Xyrkol.
Yeah, but that society would have spawned said mad scientist, and can
only do that if it has flaws.
Unless you have him hit by rays of New Nifty Machine as it connected to
a previously unknown and unexpected dimension. Or something. Where we're
back to the outside force. (Being hit by a meteor containing some
mindaltering substance would do, too.)
It has to be something that isn't their fault, in any case, and stupid
mistakes would be their fault, too. (There's a fine line that would have
to be stayed well away from all throughout, not just at the start.)
<snicker>
Like North Am in 4,000 A.D. Yeah, right.
<rolling off laughing>
Puny human!
I'm an Alien!
;)
Except that this time they go behind the scenes, and explain just
*how* these advanced people finally came to grips with the human
condition! (I have a hunch: I think they just clone extra women in
vats whenever they hit the trailing edge of a baby boom, to make up
for the younger age cohorts being smaller. So there's your plot
hook: the hero can be a feminist who uncovers the "dirty little
secret" behind her artificially perfect age.)
Ah, but then your whole setup isn't what you claimed it was. It's
either perfect and the threat comes from outside it, or it's just
the same rotton cultures you get everywhere in SF. Perfect is like
pregnant, you don't get to be a little bit it, it's an all or
nothing deal.
Well, I'm not looking for a deadly dull book
Why does everyone and their dog think a perfect society would make for a
dull book? You just need something from outside providing the problem
necessary for a story.
- what I am looking for is a book which explores the subject of
perfection. Either how we could get it, or why we can't have it - and
how close we can get.
Ok, that's your story-wish.
The striving towards it could be done on an alternate world, with just
enough different to make it possible. (As must have become obvious, I
personally don't think the humans living on this world can do it.) A
small group doing the trick, and still it has to deal with the rest of
the world.
Ok, I'm biased, and didn't make up the two options here and now. They're
what's going on in the two bigger things I wrote for my own enjoyment.
(Fantasy rather than sci-fi. The happy, crimeless culture aren't human,
and the other is on a parallel earth.)
The current project (sci-fi, even) might be more about the why we can't
have it, but not in the way that sounds.
If that's too hard, how about a story about a scientist who builds
a faster-than-light spaceship in his garage... complete with
detailed descriptions of what he is doing as he puts it together,
so that, when readers attempt to follow them, the result actually
works?
Heh.
So, you see, I'm revealing my ulterior motive.
:)
I could say that if I ever find a faster-than-light spaceship lying
around somewhere, you can have it, but I think selling it would serve me
better.
--
Tina
Don't throw links at me. Internet requires a reboot and costs money. If
I want one, I'll ask, and otherwise not bother to look at whatever it is.
To Hell with internet. ### XP v3.40 RC3 ###
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