6th January 2006, 6:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 8th January 2006, 12:20 PM by Great Rumbler.)
Quote:A man lives in a domed city, à la Logans Run, only its more primitive. Small, dwindling population---under rule of a self-declared living God. Nobody ever leaves city; no known way out, no one knows that which (if anything) lays beyond the enormous, (crumbling) concrete dome.
The hero, his best gal and (maybe a few others) find a tunnel out... find a barren, wasteland... and encounter all manner of mishap, eventually discovering that they live not on Earth, but on a colonial planet... most of humanity was destroyed in a galactic civil war, and only this one isolated colony, dwindling strain of humanity, lives. Eventually, they trek all across this distant planet, find a spaceship in tact, and fly off to the stars.
Hmm...not really the same thing. Or even close really. Except for maybe the setting, but a lot of books/movies have settings like that.
Basically, my story uses a post-apocalyptic setting as a backdrop for a slice-of-life tale. Sort of a "What would living in this world be like" story that doesn't really focus on some pending castrophy, oppressive government, or anything big like that. It's all about the characters.
Quote:I've got 1,500 pages (and we're talking Times New Roman 12 here) of stories I've written since kindergarten... so, I can be of assistance to you in your endeavours.
1,500 pages? That's like five books worth of material right there! Seriously, if I had that much material I'd be calling up every publisher I could think of, online or off, and shopping them around to anyone that would listen. I'd be buying BOOKS full of publisher information and calling all of them until somebody gave me a shot. Unless of course it's all unlicensed fan-fiction or whatever...
Sometimes you get the scorpion.