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Thank you, Grace! Wow, you're good. I'm glad people are contributing. There's some really good stuff here to mess around with. Your first example sounds fascinating, but I was thinking more along the lines of your second example. I was thinking about having a massive, contained city where everything is provided for its citizens (at the expense of great numbers of slaves), provided they're all loyal to the Queen. The Queen would run it like a morality-policed state, in that she would start off with good intentions (removing crime) and take it to the endth degree where she was removing any threat to her society and yes, even the most minor sins were punished with banishment or whatever. to maintain a 'peaceful' society.
I think I also like the idea of having a society of outlaws and criminals (people originally from all walks of life) who've been banished from the city and have formed their own criminal society with anti-hate laws etc. Yes!
Slaves will be given hallucinogenics (that don't affect their workload) to make them think they're living a life that's far greater than their reality.
The genderless society would make for an interesting idea, but I don't think I'll go that route. Maybe I'll just have large tribes of genderless people or something.
Without giving too much away, my hero is raised as a slave in the mines. He works his way up through the ranks and becomes a guard. But at his coming of age ceremony, he's tattooed with all of the sins of his people, the underground slave society. It's considered a great honour, but he finds out he's going to be killed (it's the final part of the ceremony - to put to death the sins of their collective past). Naturally, he's not cool with that. In the process of trying to escape, he stumbles upon his father and together they escape to the surface. There, he experiences the outside world for the very first time. And that's more or less, the first part of the story. And that's where this world-building will help greatly.
Thank you, dear sister!
I think I also like the idea of having a society of outlaws and criminals (people originally from all walks of life) who've been banished from the city and have formed their own criminal society with anti-hate laws etc. Yes!
Slaves will be given hallucinogenics (that don't affect their workload) to make them think they're living a life that's far greater than their reality.
The genderless society would make for an interesting idea, but I don't think I'll go that route. Maybe I'll just have large tribes of genderless people or something.
Without giving too much away, my hero is raised as a slave in the mines. He works his way up through the ranks and becomes a guard. But at his coming of age ceremony, he's tattooed with all of the sins of his people, the underground slave society. It's considered a great honour, but he finds out he's going to be killed (it's the final part of the ceremony - to put to death the sins of their collective past). Naturally, he's not cool with that. In the process of trying to escape, he stumbles upon his father and together they escape to the surface. There, he experiences the outside world for the very first time. And that's more or less, the first part of the story. And that's where this world-building will help greatly.
Thank you, dear sister!
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I really like Graces' suggestions
and they reminded me of a movie (I only saw the trailer): Some time in the future, people buy and sell time.
(So if you start your life destined to turn 90, your could sell then years, live to be 80, and spend those money you got... obviously with someone exploiting the system and suppress others )
and they reminded me of a movie (I only saw the trailer): Some time in the future, people buy and sell time.
(So if you start your life destined to turn 90, your could sell then years, live to be 80, and spend those money you got... obviously with someone exploiting the system and suppress others )
I think there should be something about entertainment technology addiction, or maybe a virtual reality thing. Kind of like being drugged or the Roman idea of bread and circuses but more acceptable, and not that far from present reality sometimes.
Or you could take it into something like an online forum and all the people the guy thinks he's talking with are computer programs designed to influence his thinking a certain way (personalized propaganda machines).
OK that's my two cents.
Or you could take it into something like an online forum and all the people the guy thinks he's talking with are computer programs designed to influence his thinking a certain way (personalized propaganda machines).
OK that's my two cents.
Whatever the world looks like 200 years from now, it will be nothing like we think it will look. I have read a lot of science fiction but not one story from years ago accurately predicted what the world is like now. Not a single one.
A few decades ago telephones that were powered by a hand crank on the side were the latest thing. A couple dozen years ago science fiction authors envisioned a future with flying cars. Personally I like the future we're living in now... I like my computer-in-my-pocket and would not give it up for a flying car.
Tintin, a question: How does the slave grow up in that society and never hear about this scapegoat stuff that everybody else knows about? I'm just thinking ahead (a habit of mine) because it's something you will probably need to answer in your book.
Also if you have not played Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic you might want to. Not the whole game, just the first part on a world called Taris. Interesting structure of that world. New City was built on top of Old City, which was built on top of Undercity. Rich people lived in New City. Old City was the slums. Undercity was where convicts were sent. Nice little power struggles at the top would sometimes result in political criminals being sent down the elevator.
A few decades ago telephones that were powered by a hand crank on the side were the latest thing. A couple dozen years ago science fiction authors envisioned a future with flying cars. Personally I like the future we're living in now... I like my computer-in-my-pocket and would not give it up for a flying car.
Tintin, a question: How does the slave grow up in that society and never hear about this scapegoat stuff that everybody else knows about? I'm just thinking ahead (a habit of mine) because it's something you will probably need to answer in your book.
Also if you have not played Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic you might want to. Not the whole game, just the first part on a world called Taris. Interesting structure of that world. New City was built on top of Old City, which was built on top of Undercity. Rich people lived in New City. Old City was the slums. Undercity was where convicts were sent. Nice little power struggles at the top would sometimes result in political criminals being sent down the elevator.
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Thanks, Lynx. I haven't really thought your question through. Maybe only an elite group who work with the slaves are privy to who's going to be selected for the 'scapegoat' ceremony. Good on you for getting the reference. You're right though. I want to avoid creating plot holes and the like. As for predicting the future, I don't care if it's not realistic, but I do want some grounding the direction it could possibly go. You know. Research quite a bit and then fake the rest - that kind of thing.
I haven't played Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll see if I can track down the game. Cheers, mate.
I haven't played Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll see if I can track down the game. Cheers, mate.
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so do all our inputs get credit acknowledgement in your novel if it gets published...
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