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nyeh

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#1
A group of kids enter the worlds of various series because of an entity that merged the worlds with the real world (one at a time) and freezes time in the real world, but another entity chose those kids to protect the world from being plunged into the "dark world" (though they don't get any powers, just some gadgets and temporary agelessness until the worlds are separated), and in the very end the entity that chose them is the one that planned all from the very beggining and didn't actually choose those kids, he told them he did so he could get them out of the way (still thinking on how those kids actually get saved) and later on faked his own death. Also there are really minor time skips between the times they are in each world because they failed to destroy the entity (the first one mentioned) and the team slightly changes.
So, what do you think?
 

daniel_gudman

KING (In Land of Blind)
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#2
I'm reminded of that old Zelazny short story, The Game of Blood and Dust.

I guess more generally the thing is,
Your god-like time/space manipulators are the main characters, and the "kids" are presented as supporting cast.

So, why are these space goons manipulating human history? For the lulz?

Are they deep-future cyberhumans, from unmade alternate futures trying to change the past to their liking, as in All of an Instant?

I guess the premise is kind of interesting, but I feel like there's no there there.
 

Antimatter

Well-Known Member
#3
You know how 'guy/girl' is summoned to a magical world where they gain some super power or use their modern knowledge to become powerful, etc stories are all the rage?

What if you had one where someone does get summoned/transported/etc, but finds themselves not in the usual dungeons and dragons style RPG world, but rather one that more or less mirrors our own tech and culturally, except with your normal fantasy races and magic and such. Basically goes form being an office drone to an office drone who is dating a half elf and works for a company with a dragon for a CEO.

Sort of like if you were a cubical jockey in the shadowrun universe or similar.
 

AzaggThoth

Well-Known Member
#4
Sounds like it could be lulzy if one managed to keep to slice of life+shenanigans and didn't try something too world shattering(at least not right away).
 

Antimatter

Well-Known Member
#5
I'd shoot for a slice of life style thing, yeah. whole point was he's nothing special, beyond your average salary man skillset. No magical self insert powers, no mary sueness, just an average joe out of water, trying to get by and make a living, along side his coworkers and friends.

Another idea here:

Aliens invade and occupy the solar system. Not the earth though, just the rest of it. And poor little mankind basically has to sit back and watch as worlds are terraformed, occupied, mined/etc, all while screaming 'hey, those are our worlds!' while not really being able to do a damn thing about it. The Aliens obviously don't care about any of our claims, and honestly, don't really talk to us much of any. We keep expecting an earth invasion, but it just never comes: the aliens are not interested in a bloody war, when they can take the rest more or less unopposed.
 

AzaggThoth

Well-Known Member
#6
Ya know, that would actually be a heck of an interesting Sci Fi story if played strait. A new way to look at all them generic invasion stories and such if one of the few times an alien bothered to try and communicate with earth, it was just a low end miner passing time in transit to mars or something. "Why would we waste time on your rock when there are all these others with nobody on em?" Sort of like an anti Mars Attacks type deal.
 

daniel_gudman

KING (In Land of Blind)
Staff member
#7
Stephen Baxter wrote pretty much that exact book, it was called Manifold Space
 

Antimatter

Well-Known Member
#9
Manifold Space eh? I'm so adding that to my amazon wishlist.

Although, this is a bit different that what, at least the amazon description says' that book is about.

I'm thinking more current tech humans, who basically find themselves an island in someone else empire. Inspired more byt he helplessness a lower technology / lesser power feels when a super power or higher tech nation basically sweeps in and takes what they want. Granted, without the conquest and genocide you typically see in real life when that happens.
 

daniel_gudman

KING (In Land of Blind)
Staff member
#10
I dunno that could carry a whole novel. I mean, it's basically saying "what if First Contact didn't lead to conflict because the aliens were inscrutable with totally different biology?"

That's more short story territory, where it's setting up an idea and then it's done.

I mean once they get to Kardeshev 3 or whatever, even if they live in the atmospheres of ice giants like Neptune, they're still talking about remodeling solar systems into Dyson clouds or so; that affects everybody in town regardless of how they set the thermostat.

That being said... Maybe Childhood's End by Clarke?

Earth gets conquered by an Alien Empire, and they're totally benevolent dictators that solve war, famine, and plague; but humans lost self-determination as a result.
 

Antimatter

Well-Known Member
#11
Yeah, it woudl probably be short story, unless I could come up with more, ah, meat for it. You could almost do it World War Z style, with each chapter dealing with some major phase of the invasion/acceptance of some event that is going on. Basically letting you skip around on the time line from initial UFO sighting till the final realization and acceptance that Earth is basically an island in someone else's interstellar empire.
 
#12
What about this: Anti-Superhuman extremist that condoning Cannibalism when wiping out everything that aren't completely ordinary humans?
 
#14
daniel_gudman said:
Either to adrees people's inability of considering any Superpowered entities that aren't totally normal humans in strictly Mechanical suits as people/human beings or I can blame Tvtropes for this
 
#16
daniel_gudman said:
I meant why make Senator Kelly a cannabal?
the Anti-Superpower in question can be anyone, not just senator kelly, in my Project, I use Lex Luthor and his ACME Corp in Anti-Superpower cannibal role(even when his cannibalism aren't that explicit), he just too carnivorous to eats any earthly foods and he runs Mega-corp
 
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