I had an idea for a story while in the shower this morning, set in a noot too distant future where people aren’t capable of having emotions anymore. In order to experience an emotion you would have to take a pill/drink that imbued you with that emotion. Some emotions would be fairly common happiness for [...]

The new BBC adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story “Sherlock” is nothing short of amazing. If you’ve not seen it what they have done is taken inspiration from the original Arthur Connan Doyle stories and created three crimes for a 21st century Sherlock to solve. I won’t go into any more detail as I don’t [...]

I had this dream about the time of the general election it was of a society of woodland people, possibly elves possibly not. The people were in the process of democratically electing a leader, there were two candidates each of whom had their say on a podium facing the people in front of an enormous [...]

I had an idea today about an alternate future where fanboyism has gone further and has superseded religion. Basically people have given up on putting their faith in insubstantial supernatural being and instead invest their faith in brands. Anyone who has met an Apple fan boy/girl knows that the level of zeal and devotion they [...]

I’m sure this has been done before but I think that this would make a good kids book. A character who can travel into any book they read be it factual or fiction. They read a travel guide, they go to that country, they read a novel they are transported into that world. I guess [...]

Inspired by this comic strip I started to think what would happen to society if a virus were to spread through humanity which broke our Y chromosomes? Within 3 generations there would be no men. We would probably figure out some way of reproduction in fact we have the technology now. Two or three hundred/thousand [...]

I had a idea for a story last night which I’ve not fleshed out at all, the premise is a bit Alice in wonderlandy, in that a normal person goes into a magical world, however at the same time a person from that magical world is sucked into our world. The writing style would have [...]

I was wondering today if it’s at all possible to write a story about dreams without sounding cliche’d and evoking the work of another author. In my case the Author I’m worried about evoking is Neil Gaimen and his work on the Sandman, but I’m sure there are others. I know that Avarinne has found [...]

I had a dream two nights ago which could be turned into a science fiction short story, maybe even a novel. I the Dream I was one of a race of Immortals (I think in the dream we were Humans who had just solved death, like in Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic [...]

I basically dremt the entire plot to a horror movie last night. The basic premise was that somone cursed a neighborhood so that anyone who performed any action 100 times would die. I don’t remember much more about the dream other than that the only way the curse could be lifted was by killing the [...]