Welcome To SciFi [FAQs and Rules: Updated 11/03/11]

Welcome to SciFi! I am Tresa, one of your moderators once again. We just have a few ground rules to lay out before we get started.

1. Be awesome to each other- No wank. Direct, personal attacks will be dealt with immediately and you will not enjoy the outcome.
1a. Have fun!
2. Please stay on topic. This is a bit nebulous (hah!) but try and stay within the thread's general idea.
3. Please utilise the overhead threads. We know that a lot of people need help sorting their stories out (epic 'is my story scifi threads' every year) but please, for the sake of organisation check before posting to make sure that your question doesn't have an overhead thread.
4. BACK UP YOUR NOVELS. Seriously. The computer uprising will eat your novel. Resistance is useless.

That said, these are the overhead threads:

*Introduction Thread*
Is My Novel Scifi?
SciFi Official Dares thread
First Sentence of your Novel
SciFi Death Toll Tracker
You Know You Write SciFi When...
Your Novel in 20 Words or Fewer
SciFi Writing Buddies



And the subgenre threads:

Alternate History
Alternate Universe
Cyber/Biopunk
Dieselpunk
Dystopic
Fanfiction of SciFi Canon
Generation Ships
Giant/Tiny Characters (a la Gulliver)
Hard SF
Military SciFi
Near future
Post-apocalyptic
Romance
Space Opera/Soft SciFi
Steampunk
Superheroes
Time Travel



More to come. PM me if you'd like your subgenre added, and/or when you set up a thread for it or if I have missed it.

is this a sci fi?

Oct 12 notes

Queen Anne sees the child.
Story she is told is that he was abandoned because of his appearance
Child does not talk
He communicates through the mind
He is bald with wide sky blue eyes
No face hair no eye lashes or eyebrows
the queen lays claim to the child and names him Prince Thomas
She allows William to teach him the art of the army


Short synopsis on NaNoWriMo site:

Sixteenth century's Queen Anne's general of war is pulled up into a space ship. He is then ask to care for a child that has genetics of both human and alien. This child is created to save man kind from extinction. The Queen adopts the child making him prince. The story is full of his powers, and his journey on planet Earth.


King Thomas



Novel Title: King Thomas
Author Name: Ida Matilda Wright
Plot/Summary: see below the possible beginning of the book is here
Colors/Ideas: Dark with some light on a 16th century bald king with big blue eyes

Any art/photos you want me to use: (Quick note, these must be your own work or from a public domain source.)
contacts

I contacted a NaNoWri member about a cover for my novel

I also emailed the newbie group and the mentors about getting a mentor.

Should be hearing back from them soon.

Still getting to know the site.

More ideas for later in the novel

The queen has a heart attack because of her weight and stress.

Thomas comes home and heals her

Thomas gets married. They have a child.

Thomas child is born Grey skin, white hair, bulging black eyes,and hands with only three webbed fingers

Tomas wife is about to kill the baby, when he uses mind control to stop her....

A. either she kills herself...

B. the baby is abducted to the space ship...

C. The king raises the child in costume or munk's dress

Could we pin the sub-genre threads somehow at the top of the page? It would make them much easier to find, once the whole game here really gets going.

Well, something for the techies: Maybe it would be nice to be able to make subforums. That way you could have a forum under the different genres for specific subgenres.

Ex.

Sci-Fi forum
Welcome thread (sticky)
Subgenre forum (sticky)
Subgenre1 thread
Subgenre2 thread
Etc.
Other threads going as usual

I don't know if that's possible with the current software, but it might be a good idea.

Where do you send finished Novels to?

The other Sci-Fi forums don't want to let me post in them. Any idea why or how I can?

I think Paranormal should be added as a sub genre. Romance has it in theirs but I've not seen it in sci fi and there has to be some vampire, witch, were, or shape shifter stories out there that have no romance plot in them. But if not, I certainly do and it doesn't fit into your list as it stands now.