What makes a good military sci fi short story?
May 11th, 2008 Posted by: admin
I’m writing a military sci fi story set in the future about a marine who gets captured by aliens. He got heavily injured in a skirmish, so now he’s incredibly weak. Though it seems impossible, he decides to attempt an escape, and he has to depend on his wits instead of his muscles. How does this premise sound? What can I do to make this a great sci fi story?
By: Doc
By: Doc
Tags: Aliens, Muscles, Skirmish
May 12th, 2008 at 13:08
the aliens ship where hes captured has a complicated super advanced technology all around that can never be shutdown or taken over unless the leader is dead. all of the other aliens are actually clones of the leader and just obey when a tiny dna compound on their cells activate with the voice of their leader . Remember the ship hes in the middle of space or another dimension there is no scape unless he takes control of the ship and head it to earth. so he has to actually posses the leader abilities in order to command the other aliens to do the job because he has no freaking idea of how to work with this advanced technology. so he happens to get into the cloning room and notice a purplish liquid which is injected into the leader aliens body ( and that is the liquis that insert the command dna leader portion into their cells) so he somehow manages injectted into himself , but FOR HIS SURPRISE HE BECAME AN ALIEN HIMSELF! the first thing that he did was to command the clones to kill his own leader , and so he becomes the new leader but now HES HUMAN NO MORE and hes going to earth alright , but this time he plans on bloody wars , and earth domination instead of going to his wife and kids , when he actually comes to earth again panic takes over , his wive sees the arrival of the ETS on tv and notice that the leader(her husband is wearing the necklace she gave him before going to the military and decides to go where they are to ask for an explanation about why is he wearing his husband necklace ….he doesnt remember her ……ok now you continue on the end…….jesus christ if you plan on really writing this then at least name one character with my name :yaremis
May 14th, 2008 at 17:36
Have you considered adding a love interest? MAYBE ANOTHER SOLDIER?