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At this point, students will have a whole pile of ideas to draw from. And the ideas are all extrapolated from a single real idea. You might want to check out Joshua A. I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing!

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. What if…? Here are some examples of what we have come up with, all based on real news articles students found: What if the internet stopped working? What if people lived in the Kepler solar system?

What if science let people re-grow lost limbs? Here is a quick example: At this point, students will have a whole pile of ideas to draw from. I took from this story as a deep reflection on the loss of natural resources and the depletion of the environment.

This is dystopian science fiction at its finest. Bone-deep and altering. It is a soul-wrenching story, structured as a list of those the narrator has had sex with, while also telling the story of her fight for survival as an epidemic ravages the nation. It is as full and desperate for hope as it is heartbreaking. Looking for a science fiction fairytale? There are no pulled punches. These are the fairytales for our times, haunting and full of undeniable truth. She has a novel coming out in fall titled On Fragile Waves.

A passenger awakes in a vessel on a long journey. Queries to the AI computer are unhelpful and faltering. There are so many things in this story that make up what I love about science fiction. Polite robots with attitude. The tension of hearing static silence on the end of a comm. Nila is part of a security force hired by a digital intelligence that has rarely had any need to protect. Nila wants to be a part of something bigger than herself, but has had nothing to fight.

What is security is there is no need for it? Then all hell breaks loose. Tidhar is able to create an action-packed epic adventure in a single story, and now I am desperate to find more of his work.

Kij Johnson is one of my favorite science fiction and fantasy writers. And this is most definitely a science-fiction story. Feels more like psychological horror at this point. What do I know? What should I add to make this more science fiction? We could visit Enceladus.

Play some futuristic hockey on the surface. Futuristic hockey on the surface of Enceladus sounds like a blast. A short-person joke. Now , thought Mr Writer snug in the cockpit of his interstellar spaceship fresh from exploring black holes in search of aliens, if only I knew how to skate.

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