/u/AccessTheMainframe's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The alien invasion was defeated, and their spaceships reduced to rubble. The only thing putting a damper on things is the question of what should become of the millions of hostile, defeated extraterrestrials now stranded on Earth.
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[EU] The starship USS Enterprise is sent to explore an interdimensional rift in space, and encounters the Imperium of Man.
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[WP] Lots of science fiction have fully sentient robots treated like slaves. Make a setting where the opposite happens: a society where robots are treated as full people even if they're nowhere near sentient yet.
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[WP] "A marine can't be defeated," your gunny used to love to say. "You can kill us, but we'll just regroup in hell." As you awaken next to a lake of fire and brimstone, you realize he was more right than he ever knew.
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[WP] The Kingdom mandates all subjects become zombies after death. The undead work the fields, build the roads and afford the people some of the best conditions in the known world. Only problem is all the ghosts.
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[EU] Both 1984 and Mad Max take place on the same planet simultaneously. England and Australia have just reacted to the same civilizational collapse in different ways. Set a story somewhere on this planet.
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[WP] Your kingdom was usurped, and to humiliate you the usurper has forced you to be his jester. Armed with only the ability to publicly mock anyone in the etiquette bound politics of the realm, you rapidly become the most influential voice at court before the new King even realizes it.
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[CW] Add onto Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" so that it covers the events from 1989 to the present year.
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[WP] Write a story where the "bad guys" are actually, completely, 100% right, to the point where it's weird the story keeps calling them the bad guys.
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