Post you best science fiction book ideas

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An idea that was running around in my head quite a bit a couple years ago was a story in which the consciousness of a famous starship admiral was captured digitally before he died, and this consciousness ends up being "switched on" and put in control of a humanoid robot, who then tries to figure out where he is and who put him there.

He winds up realizing that he is on a damaged, abandoned ship that has veered into a populated planet's orbit - and the ship's orbit is now about to decay entirely.

He quickly begins work to generate some amount of directional thrust to save the planet and himself - the ship's fuel source is destructive on a continental scale - but while doing this he realizes that he only has minutes to go before the ship is lost, yet he experiences these minutes as days, weeks, his advanced machinery sluggishly moving hundreds of times faster than any human, but still feeling like molasses compared to the rate at which he experiences time and can run models and calculations.

The end result of the story is that he discovers that he (or rather, a copy of his consciousness) is an Insurance module that comes standard with every class-6 or above space vessel, and he is switched on any time the vessel goes out of control and could potentially result in loss of life. He is essentially a trolley-problem solver on behalf of desk workers looking to lower liability and he ceases to exist when there is no conundrum to solve. The objective results of the new insurance module is millions of near-disasters averted, as if by a miracle, and many others being diverted in ingenious ways to lower the cost in human lives. There are thousands of these modules and they are activated hundreds of times every year.

This would cover questions of whether this type of self-imposed moral obligation, taken advantage of, constituted slavery. When he manages to activate an earlier model that he discovers among flotsam an jetsam in the cargo hold he converses with himself and can see that no version of himself could ever escape to find peace. He begins to curse his inability to put his own interests over others, knowing he was obviously picked because he would by nature never leave a sinking ship, and he begins to see that sinking with the ship is his eternal fate. He can do nothing else.
With a second copy of his own mind to console him, he completes the repair and watches his disintegrating ship narrowly make it into water just off-shore. They are both obliterated.

Main character works at robot factory, but becomes displaced due to ever increasing automation. His daughter dies after being born and his wife leaves him.
So he joins the military to go fight humanoid reptiles on other planets because, he has no other options, because there is nowhere to work anymore and he does not want to sit idly for otherwise, he would kill himself because he has nothing left
As a result of all of this, he has lost a lot of his humanity and becomes more like what he hates, robots

WOT IF YOUR BRAIN WAS A COMPUTAH

Dragons arguing

my novel describes a typical litposter's life over the 40 year span in their mother's basement. It's about finding meaning in a worthless life of tenders and hentai.

It's like how shitty life is n'stuff but through a metaphor in which it all happens in space

Adulthood's End, The Venusian Chronicles, Spaceship Marines, A Wooden Cucumber, The Butler's Story, Sky Zeus, The Girl in the Medium Hotel.

i'm a sucker for anything where the twist at the end is "it took place on earth all along!"

robots realize that there are things they are incapable of doing so they start creating smarter and smarter humans until the humans become self aware and destroy them

Simple

Ai and GOD fuse together in the future

Creating a portal to a new dimension
You hook into a computer and are allowed freedom to explore any and everything.

Old Tv shows, Old Books, Movies, anything you can think of.

But, there are also 'hubs' were people can communicate and share ideas freely through telepathic communication.

You can project images for others to see, and so they can to you.

The metamorphosis of prime intellect

Yup, and you may only explore with another person if you soul bound to them 'add them to your friend list'

Marriage of two souls is how they ma explore separately but act as 1 entity.

Also that shitty episode of black mirror with the lesbians. The fact that people thought that was a happy ending is very sad

10/10

Ok, so it's like about superheroes but it's dark and gritty and realistic

I want to read this please.

i could write a bingo board predicting how cliched this is gonna be

what if your computer was a brain that, over time begins to resent your shit posting and doxes you

anyone have tips for writing pulp sci-fi?

Pretty good.


I think it'd be fun if he devised a way of perpetuating his continued existence through the exploitation of rules. That's what I'd try to do, try to 'live' as long as possible.

>no (Yous)
Guess I need to work on it a bit

The main characters life is an experiment on how an ai robot would react to a normal "human" life.

Time travelling to the past to collect the "souls" of everyone who ever died to upload them to an artificial afterlife.

Sapient dinosaurs defending their space empire from evil alien moss

I thought it was a joke

you should probably read some books on plot, structure, and what makes stories work

I haven't really worked on it so its a really rough idea. Yeah some structure would help as word some reworking of the idea

A man invents a time machine and travels several centuries into the past. While there, he accidentally leaves behind an anime porn comic. When he returns to the present, he finds that the world has drastically changed.

Scientists go back in time to stop the Holocaust but they discover that it never actually happened.

Was the MC happy during his job at the robot factory?

>Race of machines surpass their creators
>Machines create a hyper-being more advanced than they are
>Creation surpasses the machines themselves

Yes and no.
He is happy that he has a job to provide for his wife. Sad that he's helping build the things that have replaced so many people he knows and that will soon replace him

Frakking cylons!

Did the Cylons really build a being beyond even their comprehension? I've never seen either versions of Battlestar Galactica. I was basing that idea off of System Shock 2.

So it's just Moon? Did nobody here watch that movie?

I want to write something dystopian about a hyper social-media-ized future, but blah, Black Mirror did it.

not fiction

I think people having watched it might be the reason why no one is agreeing with your notion that "it's just Moon". It obviously isn't.

Pretty much just Moon. It even ends with them 'landing' on the planet. Moon is just a little less macabre.

Mysterious force is constantly bombarding earth, randomly swaps peoples consciences once every few weeks, no way to know when it happens, it just does.
Society must change to cope with this, many die.
How can you train to be a doctor in the US if tomorrow you wake up as a 2month old Nigerian girl.
Time between swaps starts to speed up, some rare few people don't seem to ever be swapped. Main character swaps into one of the aliens "controlling" the mind swapping force and has to convince the world of something.

I want to write an inverted Matrix where people are convinced that what they're experiencing is just a simulation (one of supposedly many) and that when they "die" they actually just "unplug". It then turns out that this isn't the case at all, and that this lame shit really is the one true life they have.

This isn't a bad idea. I guess consciousness-swaps have been done quite a lot (I haven't read enough sci-fi to know) but the idea of it happening randomly and basically being annoying is a new twist.

Plus of course everything is better with aliens.

There was an ad for a movie with a similar plot in a theater a few weeks ago. Can't remember the name, but I think it was a John Green book
It was only one person who had his consciousness being switched though

>I think it was a John Green book
got him

Shit. I read a lot of sci-fi and every time I tried coming up with something for this thread I remembered that it's already been done.

One of those mystery thrillers where a guy gets involved with some sort of omnipotent conspiracy that's trying to frame him for a crime. He keeps investigating it to try and clear his innocence, but every layer he finds requires another layer of people to be covering it up. Eventually he discovers that the entire world except for him is a part of the conspiracy, and that he has no choice but to accept his fate or leave society. It'd be like a weird horrible paranoia version of that Jim Carrey movie.

Don't know if it has been done before, but maybe something showing the numbing of society over time through people getting implants and things to give them all the information and entertainment they need without needing to lift a finger. Think Wall-E, but instead of a cute animated robot you have some person/group of people who try to wake up the population.
The image I kind of have in my head is like pic related sort of

Short story about someone using VR sees an exact avatar of himself and he searches the world/net for the person to ask why

Does he find an answer?

haven't gotten that far yet

In the far future most people migrated to the virtual reality and have been living there for generations in a heavily modified form not knowing want and death (Egan's Diaspora, basically). A bunch of those AI people get a notion that this is not a fulfilling way for humans to live and, despite resistance from "normal" AI people, are able to leave the Earth to create a more "natural" embodied society (basically Egan's Oceanic). After landing on the new planet they are unable to come to agreement how what is a natural and primevally satisfying way for humans to live, how natural do they want to go (do they make deadly viruses and shit?), so they slit many different fractions (like in Diaspora, kinda).

The heroes of the novels are people born in one of those embodied tribes. The society is mostly primitivist with the exception of whole bunch of technologies that enable spiritual stuff like "spirits" of the dead and reincarnation. They have supprest most of their Earth knowledge and are left with legends of their ancestors coming from stars.

Aliens have left artifacts on Earth. Advances in quantum physics detection tools like CERN, LHC etc have allowed humans to detect the weird signatures these artifacts give off. The artifacts have incredible, bizarre, miraculous and terrifying properties. People experiment with them to determine how they work. I'd write the book as a series of journal-like entries from different researchers learning about the artifacts, or explorers trying to find them.

A superman in real life, but his powers are so vast and powerful he can literally do anything he wants.

Mad eugenicist breeds a race of immortals on mars in a crystalline palace. They are the most beautiful, gentle intelligent beings ever conceived. And he will replace us with them

A journalist writes a piece on a rejected experimental rifle. The gun is designed to make no sound and essentially just produce no feedback whatsoever. Whitout these external stimuli the journalist (when he is offered to try it) discovers that the weapon exposes the horrifying nature of violence and death, whitout the numbing things around it and bursts into tears. This being the reason the weapon was rejected in the first place of course

Set in the near future where we have essentially become post-scarcity. Humanity has completly satisfied all its evolutionary desires and no one works other than for pleasure. The luddite protagonist finds it increasingly difficult to find meaning in his existence as the people around him increasingly opt out of reality into virtual realities and drug induced euphorias. He kills himself at the end.

Please do.

>His daughter dies after being born

Yeah my idea had been that the government requires everyone to get a neural implant. And after MC's daughter is born robotic surgeon is going to slice her open and put the implant in but messes up and kills her.
It would add to his hatred of robots.

>gun is loud and kicks shoulder
>scary, PTSD and bruising
>gun is quiet
>scary and PTSD
The absolute state of noguns

The Time Machine but instead of Time being the fourth dimension it's the actual fourth spatial dimension