Man made Mermaid (Sci-Fi and fantasy or Nonhuman category)

[storyteller19]

I have a completed story that I want to start posting in parts after getting it edited. One problem I am trying to figure out is which category to post it in. Total length is a little over 60,000 words.


The story takes place in the near future where the world has suffered from global warming but thanks to technology/ gene technology some of the worst effects are being held at bay. This is only the world of the story. The bulk of the story takes place in an advanced city and human gene splicing is just starting to get introduced to the public.

The main character Sarah is a criminal who through a casino robbery gone wrong ends up undergoing gene-splicing to become a mermaid and working at the casino in order to reduce her sentence. She works as a sort of attraction for the casino, meeting its guests and swimming through the grand aquarium that goes throughout the casino. Her body is hypersensitive so she is always horny and her orgasms are stronger than when she had her human body.

On one hand, the setting is Sci-fi and there is some advanced tech, but the story is largely about Sarah getting used to her new body and coming to love it and herself. She is a mermaid, but she is also human so I am leaning towards Sci-fi.

 

[RejectReality]

I think you're sci-fi here due to the setting. However, the fact that the MC was born human is irrelevant when she now has a nonhuman body. So far as I'm concerned, its the current form that's relevant, and to some extent, whether the character is recognizable as non-human at a glance.

I doubt the non-human readership would give you any flak, should you choose to place it there.

I don't think there's really a right or wrong answer here. Go with whatever tickles your pickle.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I think you're sci-fi here due to the setting. However, the fact that the MC was born human is irrelevant when she now has a nonhuman body. So far as I'm concerned, its the current form that's relevant, and to some extent, whether the character is recognizable as non-human at a glance.

I doubt the non-human readership would give you any flak, should you choose to place it there.

I don't think there's really a right or wrong answer here. Go with whatever tickles your pickle.

Agreed.

My story E.V.T. was something like that, but not on anything so majestic a scale. I put it Sci-Fi and the once-human mermaid MC had sex with people. No complaints in that regards.

Look forward to reading yours.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Sounds like a good read. My two cents is Scifi. Gene splicing = science.

 

[PennameWombat]

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The main character Sarah is a criminal who through a casino robbery gone wrong ends up undergoing gene-splicing to become a mermaid and working at the casino in order to reduce her sentence. She works as a sort of attraction for the casino, meeting its guests and swimming through the grand aquarium that goes throughout the casino. Her body is hypersensitive so she is always horny and her orgasms are stronger than when she had her human body.

On one hand, the setting is Sci-fi and there is some advanced tech, but the story is largely about Sarah getting used to her new body and coming to love it and herself. She is a mermaid, but she is also human so I am leaning towards Sci-fi.

A mermaid named Sarah? Does she have a friend named Rachel? In A Mermaid Christmas Sarah and Rachel become mermaids through some subterfuge by a tech mogul. They also had nipples and clits "enhanced." Then again, mine's probably not the first "Sarah" mermaid story.

There's a sequel (sort of, it's set well in the future when the techniques to make merpeople have been extended to germ lines allowing them to reproduce merpeople) called A Christmas Miracle on Dewdrop. Sarah and Rachel, "his first mermaids," are mentioned but this is long after their time and 200 light years from Earth.

Both in SF&F. The first entry the readers seem to think I failed to surmount the tropes. The newer entry has more positive reaction. I do have stories in NonHuman but these, and yours, seem to fit well in SF&F.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I reckon Sci-Fi and Fantasy if the world-building is important, Non-Human if it's just about the creatures.

 

[storyteller19]

Sarah’s everywhere

A mermaid named Sarah? Does she have a friend named Rachel? In A Mermaid Christmas Sarah and Rachel become mermaids through some subterfuge by a tech mogul. They also had nipples and clits "enhanced." Then again, mine's probably not the first "Sarah" mermaid story.

There's a sequel (sort of, it's set well in the future when the techniques to make merpeople have been extended to germ lines allowing them to reproduce merpeople) called A Christmas Miracle on Dewdrop. Sarah and Rachel, "his first mermaids," are mentioned but this is long after their time and 200 light years from Earth.

Both in SF&F. The first entry the readers seem to think I failed to surmount the tropes. The newer entry has more positive reaction. I do have stories in NonHuman but these, and yours, seem to fit well in SF&F.

I did have the base of this story suggested to me by a reader and Sarah and Rachel were the names they suggested as a place holder. I wonder if they were a fan of your stories or if there is just a demand for stories about Mermaids named Sarah lol.

I will check out your stories to see how you wrote about mermaids.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

A mermaid named Sarah? Does she have a friend named Rachel? In A Mermaid Christmas Sarah and Rachel become mermaids through some subterfuge by a tech mogul.

Who says coincidence doesn't exist? I've done two mermaid stories, PNW. My second, A Clutch of Mermaids, had the two mermaid MCs named Rachel and Sarah. I swear I didn't steal!

But now I'm going to have to read yours.

 

[PennameWombat]

I did have the base of this story suggested to me by a reader and Sarah and Rachel were the names they suggested as a place holder. I wonder if they were a fan of your stories or if there is just a demand for stories about Mermaids named Sarah lol.

I will check out your stories to see how you wrote about mermaids.

If you look at the author’s note at the front of mine you’ll see my first one stemmed from a reader request/suggestion as well. I hadn’t read many mermaid stories on this site. I didn’t at the time think twice about the names.

Who says coincidence doesn't exist? I've done two mermaid stories, PNW. My second, A Clutch of Mermaids, had the two mermaid MCs named Rachel and Sarah. I swear I didn't steal!

But now I'm going to have to read yours.

Yours teed up to read

Who wouldn’t love a mermaid named Sarah or Rachel? Apparently, no one!

 

[AlinaX]

I also wrote a mermaid tale about a Rachel, by request.

 

[Wifetheif]

I have a completed story that I want to start posting in parts after getting it edited. One problem I am trying to figure out is which category to post it in. Total length is a little over 60,000 words.


The story takes place in the near future where the world has suffered from global warming but thanks to technology/ gene technology some of the worst effects are being held at bay. This is only the world of the story. The bulk of the story takes place in an advanced city and human gene splicing is just starting to get introduced to the public.

The main character Sarah is a criminal who through a casino robbery gone wrong ends up undergoing gene-splicing to become a mermaid and working at the casino in order to reduce her sentence. She works as a sort of attraction for the casino, meeting its guests and swimming through the grand aquarium that goes throughout the casino. Her body is hypersensitive so she is always horny and her orgasms are stronger than when she had her human body.

On one hand, the setting is Sci-fi and there is some advanced tech, but the story is largely about Sarah getting used to her new body and coming to love it and herself. She is a mermaid, but she is also human so I am leaning towards Sci-fi.

Not that it solves your quandary but there was a story in a "Spicy Fiction" pulp published in the 1930s where a guy tracks down his missing girlfriend only to find some perverted fiend cutting up large fish and sewing them onto the bodies of nubile young women! He was creating his own school of mermaids! Never mind that most of them didn't survive very long. It was sold as an "adventure" or "detective' story but was really just an excuse to revel in female nudity and fish guts! As it happens our studly hero arrives in time to rescue his girl but not, of course, before she is stripped of all her clothes. Moral of the story? Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were just as twisted as we are!

 

[storyteller19]

Thank you for the help

I am going to post it in sci-fi and add a little more of that element to it. I have about 90% of the story done, just missing a few scenes I skipped over, so I have some room to fill things in as I post it.


I guess that a lot of us have had the same reader request a story. It was my first time taking a request and it is nice/ different writing from someone’s seed like that and making it my own.

I wonder if a event that deals with mythical humanoids would be received well. While working on other projects I keep on having the urge to write a Medusa story where a female demigod befriends her and they fall in love. The urge to give mythical monsters a happy ending has been a strong one.

 

[RejectReality]

I am going to post it in sci-fi and add a little more of that element to it. I have about 90% of the story done, just missing a few scenes I skipped over, so I have some room to fill things in as I post it.


I guess that a lot of us have had the same reader request a story. It was my first time taking a request and it is nice/ different writing from someone’s seed like that and making it my own.

I wonder if a event that deals with mythical humanoids would be received well. While working on other projects I keep on having the urge to write a Medusa story where a female demigod befriends her and they fall in love. The urge to give mythical monsters a happy ending has been a strong one.

I've been writing a few in my Ancient Peoples series as Les, and they're doing reasonably well. I've done Lamias and Harpies so far. The next story is Nagas, and centers on bad blood between them and Lamias so ancient and strong that they've split into two genuinely separate species incapable of producing offspring. I'm pretty sure I'm going with Krakens next after that.

Gorgons will make their way in eventually. Not Medusa, because she died in ancient times. I decided that a while back. Most likely her daughter.

Avoiding dryads and the fey because they have their own series in that pen name, and avoiding mermaids because there were already a lot of them. ( Seems there's a reason for that LOL ) If I do ever venture into mermaids, I'll probably end up loosely basing them upon Dragon Quest 11s. Speaking in rhyme might be the thing that gives me enough kick to include them.