Three
Short Fiction Outlines
Malware
Outline
for an SF story
Cyber
world malware woes:
Corrupted
cryptosystems; Pretty Awful Privacy
Cryptovirus:
it says, send us money if you ever want to see your data again. Used by the
state; tax viruses!
Put
together and they spell, corrupted cryptovirus!
Offline
world as revolutionary. Online world reveres credit, barely tolerates cash,
demonises gold; reverse orientation offline.
Star
Truck
Outline
of a video series
Rosanne
in space. It’s a working-class space freighter family.
Intro
sequence:
“We
can’t all be heros. We can’t all be leaders. We can’t all save the day.
Somebody has to live the day. Somebody has to haul that load. Somebody has to
do the work.”
A
family business, with dad captain and wife and sullen teenage son and smart
teenage daughter aboard.
Scary
aliens and space travails as usual; but also space bureaucrats, and seeing
Federation officers from the taxpayer’s point of view.
The Damnation of Roland Ranger
Outline
for a play
Roland
Ranger, washed-up actor, makes a deal with the Devil; his soul in exchange for
charisma.
And
so he is loved no matter what he does; but as the play progresses, he
progressively loses his wits. By the nature of the deal, he never fully
comprehends what he has signed away; not at first, because he hadn’t lost his
wits yet, and not at the end, because he had. Only around the middle does he half-understand.
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