Why I love writing sci-fi and fantasy

[StillStunned]

I'm trying to get a handle on the erotic cartoon fantasy world. Not sure I'll ever get there in full

But I imagine you're having fun along the way!

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I may have that beat.

Part 3 of my Heaven & Hell trilogy will explore the origins of God, the Devil, the universe, and the true purpose of both Heaven and Hell.

Not a massive undertaking at all, nosiree.

Here's something I was told. The abrahamic god was actually a part of a trinity(not the one we know now), but he killed the other two and took their power.

 

[StillStunned]

But people are still people, in the sense that they usually still like their kids, even the boys, and they have better things to do than beat their husbands all day. How does that work?

Throughout human history, people have *always* been people.

For instance, the oldest recorded cat name is "Nedjem". It was inscribed in the tomb of an Egyptian nobleman from around 1500 BCE, and it means "Sweet One" or "Dear One" (although I've seen several different translations, but they all boil down to the same thing).

I like to think that one day, 3500 years ago, a rich and powerful man woke up and found a cat curled up next to him on his bed. It opened its eyes languidly as if to ask why he was surprised, and just like that the man became a cat person. He probably tripped over the cat, cursed at the cat for sitting in his chair, complained that his best tunic was covered in cat hair, worried if the cat didn't come in at night and turfed concubines out of his bed to make room for the cat.

The concubines probably looked on in disgust as he stroked and petted and fawned over the cat, and said things like, "Well, if you like the gods-cursed creature so much, what do you need me for?" And the nobleman would say, "Don't listen to her, Sweetie-Pie, she's just jealous because you're so beautiful and elegant, aren't you?"

Because over the vast gulf of time, distance, culture, religion and social conditioning, people are still people.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I'm trying NOT to steal too heavily from Good Omens.

But I love the take that Heaven and Hell are both almost corporate like institutions and even those in the higher echelons of power don't know EXACTLY what it's all supposed to be about.

And so things get muddled in paperwork and ineptitude.

The creator of Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel has both heaven and hell having nine circles.

 

[StillStunned]

I love writing sci-fi but I don't invent fantasy worlds. What I prefer is writing tales of the possible future where the reader can believe the technology could exist because it's an evolution of what we already have. My characters are also human enough that they have mostly the same personalities as any human, with just a few quirks to keep them interesting.

See my post above about Nedjem.

I definitely think that future technology should build on what already exists, because what already exists is what people actually want. The shower in my story, for instance, is a zero-G thing where you float in a cloud of steam.

Does anyone remember a book from the 1960s or 1970s called the Usborne Book of the Future? It projected what the world would be like to live in in the year 2000 and beyond. Some things it got right: flatscreen tellies, fax, low-pollution cities. But it went heavily into "robots, underwater cities and living on the moon", because those were exciting ideas at the time. Instead, technology went the route of internet, mobile phones and expensive streaming - because those are what people actually want.

 

[StillStunned]

Would love to read something sci-fi you write.

If that was addressed to me: thanks! I might post a shorter sci-fi piece one of these days.
If that was addressed to another poster: well, I suppose you can never have too much sci-fi erotica.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I like scifi and fantasy myself. I have a short story I did from r/writingprompts about bank robbers finding a safe in a safe and a woman was chained down in it. I wrote that it was Gaia who had been trapped by the abrahamic god, the robber in charge and his second were both Pagan and upon setting her free, triggered an alarm.

I also attempted to write a story about a man born of angel and demon, but couldn't take it anywhere. Just that something, something apocalypse.

It was supposed to be for this site that does 1000word stories, that rarely opens for submissions about an alien who pilots a cargo ship and his "daughter", who's an android he saved. It was simply supposed to detail their long life together. But it just kept going and going way past the limit.

Of course there's Pagans Revenge and Demon Born, I have on here. And another[honestly bad] demon story. In The Closet deals with a fairy. Both Amorous Goods stories.

I have two novels I'm working on; one is scifi romance that deals with a guy who's dating an android, the other; a rpg style fantasy about a paladin who saves and travels with a Orc/Troll hybrid woman. Technically the first book of the scifiro is done and free to read and is expanded from another r/writingprompts short story.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Like where God came from, how the universe began, and why Heaven and Hell were created and the purpose they serve.

You know, minor details

You should check in with John Milton and William Blake. They've both had useful thoughts on those topics.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Ah, the freedom to create your own worlds, people, countries...
In the sense of what some others posted, there is also complete freedom to create your own religions that aren't subject to Lit rules, as far as I know. For example, I enjoyed creating a world where gods and demons exist, but where nothing is black and white. Not all gods are good in my world, and not all demons are bad, to put it simply. Also, the escapism of indulging my imagination, and the freedom to create a slightly better version of morality than our beloved, yet completely fucked up real world, has no price.

 

[Rob_Royale]

The upside to those genres is that you can take an idea that would be implausible at best here in our world, but in sci-fi/fantasy suspension of disbelief is a given.

 

[Bramblethorn]

This morning while I was trying to wake up, my brain produced what I think is a funny scene for the sci-fi western. It takes place after the outlaw (female) has been captured and is taken to the luxury mansion of the bounty hunter's powerful employer. I pictured her in a sci-fi bathroom that she doesn't know how to use, until a hologram of a cartoon bird appears and starts giving her helpful tips. Remember Clippy, Microsoft Word's annoying Help function from the 1990s?

You might enjoy Cat Valente's "Space Opera". There's a scene there where an alien race interacting with Earthlings for the first time chooses an avatar designed to be familiar and likeable to humanity, and guess what they choose...

 

[jehoram]

As I read this thread, I'm reminded of Kurt Vonnegut's character, a prolific science fiction writer named Kilgore Trout. Trout's novels were printed by the sleaziest publishers around and usually ended up being found in porn shops. As Vonnegut explained, what Trout's novels had in common with porn were "visions of impossibly hospitable worlds."

 

[SimonDoom]

As Vonnegut explained, what Trout's novels had in common with porn were "visions of impossibly hospitable worlds."

That, and wide open beavers, as I recall.

 

[StillStunned]

This morning while I was trying to wake up, my brain produced what I think is a funny scene for the sci-fi western. It takes place after the outlaw (female) has been captured and is taken to the luxury mansion of the bounty hunter's powerful employer. I pictured her in a sci-fi bathroom that she doesn't know how to use, until a hologram of a cartoon bird appears and starts giving her helpful tips. Remember Clippy, Microsoft Word's annoying Help function from the 1990s?

*Pling!* "It looks like you're new here. Would you like some tips?"
*Pling!* "It looks like you're having a nice shower. Would you like some tips?"
*Pling!* "It looks like you're playing with yourself. Would you like some tips?"

I wrote up a first draft this evening, and in the end the little bird ("Chirpy") is actually quite helpful. I don't know whether the scene will find its way into the story in the end, but it gave me a chuckle to write.

In case anyone's interested, I've attached a PDF (aargh, five separate JPGs!) of how it turned out. Like I mentioned, I've no idea whether this scene will end up in the final story, but I had fun getting it out of my head.

 

[MarkSilver]

I'm trying to get a handle on the erotic cartoon fantasy world. Not sure I'll ever get there in full

But I imagine you're having fun along the way!

Yes, fascinating in many ways. Other than the occasional fantasy art image I'd never considered it to have any degree of erotic appeal.

 

[intim8]

I pictured her in a sci-fi bathroom that she doesn't know how to use,

Does it have three seashells? If so, please have Clippy explain that shit.

 

[StillStunned]

Does it have three seashells? If so, please have Clippy explain that shit.

If it ever gets incorporated into the main story, I suppose I'll have to do the three seashells. Curse you for bringing it up!

 

[intim8]

If it ever gets incorporated into the main story, I suppose I'll have to do the three seashells. Curse you for bringing it up!

Ping me if you do. 30 years, and I'm still wondering.

I actually bought three seashells and have them on a shelf above my toilet. No guests have commented on it yet.

 

[Duleigh]

And that's what I love about SF/F. The total freedom to come up with new worlds and flesh them out with the little details that are the reality of life.

SF/F is where I do my best writing. From Japanese style Anime worlds with bunny girls and kitty girls to Terry Pratchett's discworld, I have so much fun playing with the fabric of reality whole cloth! Unfortunately the audience in SF/F is low so I'm thinking of writing a romantic SF/F story and posting it in Romance, just to see what will happen. Maybe some more Discworld stuff, a story post Day of the Three Battles era.

 

[StillStunned]

SF/F is where I do my best writing. From Japanese style Anime worlds with bunny girls and kitty girls to Terry Pratchett's discworld, I have so much fun playing with the fabric of reality whole cloth! Unfortunately the audience in SF/F is low so I'm thinking of writing a romantic SF/F story and posting it in Romance, just to see what will happen. Maybe some more Discworld stuff, a story post Day of the Three Battles era.

An hour ago I submitted the final chapter in my Sword & Sorcery series The Rivals. For a while I wondered whether to submit it as Romance, because a lot of it is about the two protagonists figuring out their feelings for each other.

But then it ends with a demon-fuelled orgy with tentacles, so into SF&F it went.

 

[Duleigh]

An hour ago I submitted the final chapter in my Sword & Sorcery series The Rivals. For a while I wondered whether to submit it as Romance, because a lot of it is about the two protagonists figuring out their feelings for each other.

But then it ends with a demon-fuelled orgy with tentacles, so into SF&F it went.

That's so perfect! I'm thinking of a story between the youngest daughter of the king and an orphan from the Day of the Three battles, they're about the same age, I think I have a pretty romantic hook to it also. The only weird magic will be a litter of talking puppies and a gargoyle that acts as a baby sitter.

 

[Stimtheone]

I write about a casual sex sci-fi world and even I did not think of having Clippy trying to help you while masturbating. Possibly because it feels like it would be unpleasant, thus removed from my perfect utopia.