Thread: Do I have a good idea here?

Originally Posted by spockman

I'd worry less about whether similar stories have been done before and more on whether or not the characters are engaging. What's that thing they say? There are only seven basic story conventions? The story sounds like it could be interesting with alot of twists, though. If you haven't done so I'd also recommend reading plenty of science fiction detective novels. Caves of Steel is good.

The one palce I would try and be as unique as possible is how the technology works, or at least what clever applications there are for the advances in tech. People love that in science fiction stories.

Ooh thanks!

For one, I plan to do a lot with gravity. (I.E., Going into how the artificial gravity in parts of the ship work, and going into how lots of the ship doesn't have gravity, and the adaptations made for that.
As for detective stories: CYBERPUNK FOR THE WIN! Neuromancer, SnowCrash, Otherland, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?... The list goes on and on and on.