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Hello, No.34 here. Every year I start out not doing science fiction, and every year it turns into science fiction eventually.

2009 sounds like a good year for time travel.

NaNo 2007 - The Spite House Affair: A Spectacular Failure at 13,231 Words
Nano 2008 - Tales from the Strange Quark Pub: An Even More Spectacular Failure

*waves* Hi. I'm Keolah, and I'm writing science fiction! I have no idea what subgenre it might be, but it's taking place in the same universe as last year's nano, as a prequel of one of the characters. I'm writing about a genetically enginered cybernetically enhanced assassin who ... runs around the galaxy and does stuff. A female James Bond in space, perhaps? :)

Hello everyone!

I Nano under the appropriately science-fictional handle of "Tycho Brahe" but this is actually my first year doing SciFi (after spending two years working the Fantasy out of my system).

My novel this year is actually based on a story idea I came up with a decade ago, but could never make work. This last year, however, I've been watching way too much Travel Channel and realized that what the book needed was a main character along the lines of Andrew Zimmern or Anthony Bourdain. Now I'm pumped and rarin' to go!

Other personal info: I made myself spend my "off" months this year writing short fiction, and a month ago I actually sold a story! "The Rendezvous" will appear in the April 2010 issue of Shelter of Daylight, a biannual science fiction anthology from Sam's Dot Publishing.

2007: Majadan by Night (won)
2008: Daughters of Majadan (won)
2009: Waking the Sky (coming soon)

Hiya, I'm misaditas (it's an acronym for "misadventures in time and space", which well describes my writing, lol).

I am resurrecting a sci fi novel I was writting for JanNo a couple of years back but lost when I had my laptop stolen - moral of the story is BACK UP YOUR NOVELS!!! Seriously, when you loose 60K of fiction plus all your plotting and character details, it's HURTS.

Fortunately I can remember everything, so I'm plotting through October so I'm ready to go for NaNo.

misadventuring in time and space since 1999

2007 : "Resurgence" - Won
2008 : "Maps & Legends" - Won
2009 : "Out of Time"

Hello.

I'm Zuke, and I'll be continuing the adventures of the crew of the Pandora that I started in last year's NaNoWriMo. What can I say? Getting that first novel going was such fun, I'm back for more this year!

The Pandora is a starship with the unique - yes, unique - ability to traverse the distance between star systems in a matter of weeks rather than decades. Her five-person crew have been searching the universe for clues to her origins; who built this magnificent piece of technology, and why only one?

I have a few ideas for where their travels take them this time, but I still need to let the story congeal a bit. ;)

"There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different."
- Harry Dresden, Fool Moon

Hello, I'm Joi!

This is my 6th NaNo (hopefully my 5th win), and I can't wait to get started!

My story is based on a very short story I wrote last year, when the Mars Phoenix Lander shut down in Martian winter. My story is set in the nearish future, in one of the first colonies on Mars. My heroine is Dejah Sorenson, a college student (at the beginning of the story) who makes it her mission to go out and recover the long-lost Phoenix. I made a trailer for the book here: http://www.viddler.com/explore/SaintJoi/videos/137/

Before I give my introduction, I just have to say that Zuke, I desperately hope you will let me read your novel! It sounds really fascinating. xD

Anyway, this year I'm writing either Warship Delta or Warship Delta: Supply Unit, two parts of the same story that share only a couple of characters. It's looking like the latter is what I'm going to write, but I'm not ruling out the former just yet, because there's still a month left and my muse has not yet proven that she can stay on the same storyline for two months. Oh, and my name is Lissa.

The story goes like this: a war breaks out in a galaxy far, far away (I know, lame way to put it, but I mean that this is not one of those future-Earth deals, it's completely Earthless). Warship Delta is about the crew of, well, Warship Delta. The warships were designed by one side to try to turn the tide of the war; Warship Alpha gets obliterated by the other side's weapons, but just as they're losing hope, Warship Delta manages to get things turned around after all. When the war ends, the warships no longer have a purpose, and that's where Warship Delta: Supply Unit comes in. Delta gets turned into a supply ship, and its captain stays in charge but gets a (mostly) new crew, which is WAY smaller than the one they had before.

November 2009: Scenes From

Hello! I'm Alienatedduck or Gary in the whole real world thing.

My novel is mostly based around humour again this year (as was my last years) but this year there is no way I can deny the sci-fi leanings in my plot. (Last year although it's gone a little sci-fi it's not as much as this years!)

My novel is set in a giant city that is in fact a ship. The ship used to have a goal of finding somewhere liveable on the HUGE planet after their last land became unuseable. So they set off in the big ship city. But many generations later the engines have stopped working, and most have forgotten why they're in this floating city. That is until some bizarre coincidences throw together a bunch of characters (currently including someone fresh from school, and a guy with amnesia, though it's set to change) into solving the mysteries behind the floating ship whilst travelling around the multi layered world, full of the weird, the odd and the bizarre.

2008: A Turtle, And Other Things That Destroyed The World - Rewriting on hold for November
2009: The Floating City - Going a little too well!

Greetings. I'm phoenix.spice *awkward smile*

No quite sure about the subgenre, but something between Biopunk, Cyberpunk, Adventure and Political commentary. Yes all of those things go together quite well, or at least I hope they will.

2009 stats:
Characters: 3.5
Plot: 0%
Most Tea Consumed in One Day: TBA
Best Word Count: TBA
Sanity Left: 89%

Hello, I'm Dan. Although it doesn't connect to my real name in any way... ;)

This year's NaNo would be my first Science-fiction with an actual plot. It's an adventure or young adult science fiction. I usually work with fantasy and the character is a science freak. Now my character is almost too dumb. This novel idea came few months ago, before I found NaNoWriMo, and had knocked down my worst writer's block.

Left hand is for Frisbee. Right hand is for other major activities.

I'm going to make a wild stab in the dark and say the fact she's called Pandora means they're better off not knowing *snerks*

misadventuring in time and space since 1999

2007 : "Resurgence" - Won
2008 : "Maps & Legends" - Won
2009 : "Out of Time"

Hi all,

I'll likely be throwing my hat into the sci-fi arena. I'm a first-timer here, so I'm going with what I know, and that is writing a story based off one my role-playing group's adventures. So, that's what it is at the core, but seeing I'm not sure if I want to stick strickly with Shadowrun canon (that's the game these characters are from) or start with that at its root and pluck what I need, when I need it and just create my own world, is yet to be determined.

As a first timer, I'm not outlining or plotting anything out. I feel pretty confident that I have enough story to push this out, but if not, then I am big into learning from my mistakes:)

The man who in his work finds silence, and who sees that silence is work, this man in truth sees the light and in all his works finds peace.
--The Bhagavad Gita

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Hello! This is my first time venturing into the SF. I typically write fantasy (high or modern) but I've had a version of this idea in my head for awhile now and I just fleshed it out recently.

My novel is set on a post-apocalyptic earth with elements of steampunk. The city of Zion, purported as the City of God, is the only surviving city on earth. The people living inside Zion live an idyllic life; they are given their every need and boundless luxuries by the Godking of Zion. It's a nearly sinless society, the people have been both genetically altered at birth and raised to believe that they only have one single sin (one of the 7 deadly) and that sin is expressed, with permission from the government, in government run brothels etc. There is no crime, life seems perfect.

But, the population of Zion is not the only survivors of the apocalypse. The remaining survivors are scattered across the Earth in small pockets of land that survived unscathed. These refugees flock to Zion full of hope that they too will be allowed to live within the golden city. They live in a makeshift city surrounding Zion, begging to be allowed inside. Every so often, officials of the Godking choose people from outside the city to be allowed to live inside. It's a blessing, an honor, or so they believe but what really happens to those people reveals the true nature of Zion and her many secrets.

Hi, I'm Jeff and although I'm not 100% decided yet, I'm pretty sure I'm doing a YA Science Fiction story this year.

Title: Strangeway's Mind Ship

The story will take place during a purist faction attempt to overthrow the Government and military. They fear the governments policy to allow alien and modified humans into the Space Service. Horatio Hornblower Strangeway and a group of his fellow Space Service cadets, including the misfit aliens and humods, get caught up in the coupe.

Jeffery E Doherty - "Write tight! And power to your keyboard."
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Write tight and power to your keyboard

I'm sail4sea because I used to be in the Navy. I am writing The Corporeal Ghost this year. That way I get to kill off my main character early in the story. Here is my brief synopsis:

While running a courier mission for her boss, Caryn Rask is beaten and killed by a rival set of mobsters. She wakes up in the morgue, revived by an accident with nano-machines and determines to fight those who left her in the state between living and dead. She is aided by a new healing ability, a desire for revenge, and the need to please her mobster boss who had raised her since she was a small child.

I previously only wrote military science fiction, but this time I am getting away from characters who have rank. I am still writing in my same universe as my novel from last year.

Hi, I'm Beth.

Each time I do Nano, I end up with a different genre, and this time it seems like science fiction. I'm writing in a post-spacetravel world with wormholes/gates connecting various human civilisations. My lead character becomes part of a guard corps that provides protection for her planet's space station, the commercial of the known universe. But her fledling career is upended when attacks by pirates (or are they?) decimate her compatriots.

(And it's all based on musical theatre performers. I may be grasping at straws here.)

Looking forward to the madness again!

Beth Winter
2003, 2005, 2009!

Hello, everyone!
I love science fiction; it's just one of those things that is indescribably fascinating to me. This will be my third year. I'm 1 for 2 so far (NaNo 07 failed because I had tons of homework that eventually ended up making me decide to switch majors to something I can understand: computers!), but I have a great feeling about this year. I'm basing my plot entirely on a tribute song to Carl Sagan that's been making its way around the Intertubes lately. Here is a thread I've created asking for help filling in holes in the plot, and you can get to the song on YouTube from a link in that post. Please drop in and suggest some ideas!

By the by, I would be very interested in having some NaNo buddies specifically from SciFi this year. Ring me up if you're interested!

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"Writing is like taking a bath: if you don't do it every day, you stink!"

Hey, my name (not really) is Blazinfox555. This will be my first major dip into the sci-fi genre, or at least I think it is. This is my second year doing Nanowrimo.

I am working on a story that is set in the future. In this future there are no food or power problems, well...except for a random third world country or two, and everyone world wide has begun participating in "The Game" (I can't think of a better name). I guess you could call the game a real life role playing game. So I have a main character, a girl, and she's just starting out in the game. At this point in time I have next to no idea what's going to happen, nor do I have any real experience in role playing games, except for like a couple days playing GURPS. I don't even have a name yet! Where are the plot bunnies when you need them?! Can I just say that names hate me?

If anyone has any advice or something nano message me, or whatever that thing is called.

2008: The Blade's Hand -- completed
2009: The Riddled Path -- in progress

*waves* Hi, I'm EOTD here, but if you end up knowing my name at some point, i don't mind you using it. I've known about NaNo for a while, and while events have always conspired in the past to make November too busy (or October too emotionally draining, like the last two years) that I have yet to pass. This year, though, I'm going to finish even if I have to drag myself across the finish line on pure drivel, though I hope that's not necessary.

My story at the moment is a side-story split off from a larger plot that I've had in my head for more than a year now, and while the main plot would work much better serially than as a bunch of novels, this story should stand alone well as a book, so I'm going to give it a shot unless something better comes along. The main plot involves the misadventures (both ridiculous and dramatic) of the mall crew of a freelance interplanetary cargo ship, and this NaNo novel starts when they discover a little girl stowed away on the ship in the middle of a long trip between planets. She claims to be an "indigo child" with strange abilities and a knack for knowing what the crew i thinking, and when they try to figure out how to get her home, they end up running into trouble, and it turns out that the girl really is more than she seems.

Sorry if that sounds vague, but that really is all I have at the moment...time to think up some trouble.

I'm Lunae, and this is my seventh go at this thing. This year is only my second sf plot, however, so I'm a little nervous about it. Usually I write modern fantasy. The last time I wrote SF, it was set on Mars, but this time it hits a little closer to home.

This takes place on a near-future Earth, where the tech really isn't that much different from what we have now. However, over the past decade or so, strange things have been happening. An increase in cancers, different paranormal abilities turning up and being proven as fact and given. There's a holding pattern until the computers that control most of the systems the world operates on fail, and with them, many of the modern comforts. Given human nature, everything goes straight to hell. And who would fall in the middle of this but Nate Bridgeport, first year university student, and known troublemaker.

Everything beyond that, I still have to flesh out.

Yeah, October's going to be fun.

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NanoWriMo 2009 (41,005/50,000)

Happy Friday!

I'm The Girl Nerd. Been a writer all my life, but never tried a novel. Well, that's not exactly true. I used to pretend I was writing one, but they all turned out as extended short stories.

This year I am determined to finish, and I've chosen good old trusty Sci Fi. I've had an idea rolling around in my head for months and I can't WAIT to get started. I'm bad at classifying sub-genres of anything, but we'll call it Possible Future Sci Fi? It's inspired by all the talk of world-ending black holes brought about by the currently-defunct Large Hadron Collider. I have absolutely no background in science, but I'm going to have fun with this.

Only a month away! Ganbatte yo!

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Hey, all. I'm thecynicalpixie. *waves* Currently an HS freshman, and this is my first NaNo, so I'm a bit excited and nervous. I decided to do sci-fi this year because lately, I've become intrigued by it. It started with Doctor Who and Lost, but then I started reading Asimov and Bradbury in school, and I was hooked. This will also be my first foray out of the genre of realistic fiction, so here's hoping it goes well.

My plot is post-apocalyptic fiction, with some cyberpunk mixed in. Basically, it's set in an alternate 21st century America, which is trying to rebuild itself after a war in the 90s that killed thousands of people. To control the populace after this disaster, scientists and government officials began kidnapping groups of teenagers (well, not really kidnapping..more like drafting) and using their technologies to turn them into advanced, robotic humans with the ability to learn special skills such as superspeed, strength, etc. These hybrids (as people call them) are forced to work for the government, patrolling the areas they live in and punishing anyone who disrupts the harmony of the US. In some cases, they even resort to murder.

Ren, the FMC, has run away so she can escape being drafted into the horrible hybrid regime (because she learns from an outside source that she's one of the draft picks). But after her sister has to go back to college, Ren's left with no one to protect her but her parents. After a tragedy befalls one of them, Ren decides it's time to topple this evil plot once and for all. Meanwhile, my MMC (no name picked out yet) has been turned into a hybrid, and begins to struggle with his duty to his country and the chance to regain the free will he had back when he wasn't a monster. Both characters are on opposing sides at first, but learn a bunch of secrets and lies behind the hybrids that could change the world forever.

I'm planning to make this a trilogy, but we'll see how this first novel, Revenge of the Fallen, goes. I'm psyched to start writing it. :D

NaNo 2009: Life on Mars

-Write to understand, to read, and to grow. So go ahead, write on, and excuse the lame pun.

Hello, I'm Katie aka Blightygirl and I'm a Nano newbie.

My novel is set several hundred years in the future after a manmade virus created to destroy heroine producing poppy plants and coca plants goes awry when the virus adapts to attack other plants. The virus was intended to adapt to attempts to subvert the virus but the political pressure by the US and China to release the virus before the next set of elections forced the virus out too early. I've plotted out everything that happens from that point on, lots of stuff occurs including a few nukes as the virus spreads to humans, which will be my next book if I enjoy next month!

My novel picks up in the future where all land based plant life (except fungi) was wiped out and civilisation now depends solely on sealife for food and materials (the virus cannot transmit into plants through water). The city it is set in is split in two, technology, wealth and security vs the surrounding deprived slums. My story plays out by following many different people during a short time in my city. You read about the scientist trying to revive plant life to rebuild his vision of society, you follow one of 'bearers' of his solution, a disgruntled saboteur, the doctor outcast from the rich side working in the slums in make a living, you follow a murderous prostitute, a man living his last moments and the leader of violent, angry slum rebels among others. These people tell the story of the time they are in a what life is in this future and the adaptions made.

I've lovingly spent the last month adding detail to my setting, I know what they wear and why (post-nuclear winter climate means searing UV rays during the day and freezing cold temperatures at night) because only sealife and mushrooms survived to be food, I know how it smells and what they eat. I can't wait to sink my teeth into the plot, though my brain is still stuck on the ending.

It's brilliant to read so many varied storylines, I love Sci-Fi.

Hi All,

I know my name says Dark Fantasy Writer, but I also write in the Science Fiction Genre too (dark of course). My real name is Tina and I've had 5 short stories published this year (2009)

This is my first NaNo, and I'm a little stuck on what to write about. I have two book ideas. Would you guys be willing to help me decide?

1) A dark fantasy novel.

"In a world where magic is controlled by the plants and animals, humans have striven for generations to gain the upper hand. Scientists went to war with the religious communities about how to harness magic for human controlled power, and in the end the scientific community was sent underground. Soon after a mysterious Mist appeared and no one ever returned alive, until now. Four people with no memories of who they are are found wandering the mountain side, and with the help of a mercenary, a noble women on the run, and senile old man they unlock the mystery of the mist and very magic of their world."

I think this will be part of a trilogy but I'm not sure. I'm also not sure what the whole plot is, but I have a bunch of cool characters that want to come out and play.

2) A dark science fiction novel.

"In the far future, the Interplanetary Alliance has crumpled and the Myriths, a warrior human group, have begun their war on the remaining pockets of resistance. Even neutral planets like Adrossia are not safe, and Kori is among those abducted when Adrossia is pillaged for habitat, animals and slaves. She was luckily to survive the cull but when she is forced to become a sex slave, survival takes on a whole new meaning. "

This is not an erotic or even romantic piece, and I want it to highlight the struggles of overcoming captivity, learning to fight back and how hope can change the course of war.

So.... any one have a suggestion? Which one should I pick?

Website: http://www.TinaHunter.ca
NaNo 2009: Riot Girl

I love the dark sci-fi novel. War-set stories intrigue me, especially when the MC is forced to become a POW/slave. Definitely do that one, for sure. Just make it unique and captivating, and you're set!

NaNo 2009: Life on Mars

-Write to understand, to read, and to grow. So go ahead, write on, and excuse the lame pun.

Hey...I'm 2Tall and I'll definitely be doing sci-fi.

For me, the story will be set on a planet somewhere in future, where the colonists where left to fend for themselves and where the early settlers had to come up with some though choices to ensure survival of their colony. Hundreds of years later, as the colony has grown into a thriving society, some of the choices from the early days still play a part in the lives of the citizens...except that they don't know it. The "hero" realizes, due to a number of unexpected events, that life as he knows it really is mostly a lie concocted by the government. As he discovers the truth, he'll have to make a choice between saving someone he loves or saving society as a whole.

In short, a bit of an adventure, with a little bit of romance in a sci-fi setting.

http://www.twitter.com/tallswedishguy
http://2talltales.blogspot.com

Nanowrimo 2005 Winner - "Valley of the Dead"

Hi everyone, this year I will be returning to my first love and writing Science Fiction after two years of doing fantasy. I've long wanted to do a SF version of the Anabasis so this year I'm finally sitting down and doing The Ascent. The obligatory synopsis:

It was only supposed to be a minor military expedition and Kenneth Phon was only supposed to be an observer, but when the ambitions of powerful men turn to betrayal and disaster, the largest human warfleet ever assembled finds itself leaderless and lost, thousands of lightyears deep in enemy territory.

Surrounded and on the point of surrender, the fleet turns to one man to lead them in their fight through hundreds of enemy systems. Can Ken get the fleet home before the aliens can take their revenge on a defenseless Earth?

http://ja.partridgez.com
2007: A Kingdom of Stone (part 1) 51,134
2008: A Kingdom of stone (part 2) 51,240
2009: The Ascent

Hi all, KidChyron (Brian) here.

I'm 0 for 4 with NaNo, but while I'm used to falling off the horse as it were, my last attempt was unusual -- I work in television, and the Presidential election destroyed my schedule for the first part of November, I never got ONTO the horse.

Since the idea I had lined up for a go last year never got proceeded upon, I'm doing take two on it this year:

It's the kind of post-apocalyptic SF that reads like fantasy, except there's no magic (aside from of whatever qualifies under Clarke's Third Law) and there's an elite class living in Earth orbit. When conflicts erupt both groundside and amidst the orbiters, my story's gonna follow a refugee orphan heir to royalty, an idealist getting his metaphorical butt kicked in the political arena, and a dissolute ne'er-do-well nobleman with the proverbial heart of gold.

I hope.

Y'ello folks, I'm Elfdragon, Elf, or even my actual name, Renee. This is my fourth year in NaNo(only won in my second year) and this is my first year in the Sci-fi realm. Hopefully my planned plot won't be overthrown.

My novel this year will be Sci-fi/Mystery-a murder mystery to be specific. No aliens(as of yet), but there will be plenty of high tech things. A police officer is called to the scene of a crime and the local detective decides to make her his lackey as he investigates who is the real killer. It takes place in a sort of Alternate World in a Section 92A of some metropolis I haven't figured the name to.

The detective is somewhat reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes and the police officer is playing the female, unwilling, grumpy, and still gun-toting Watson. :)

2006 - "The Heart of Argres" - FAILED - 8K
2007- "The Dragon Collector"-WON-50K
2008-"Story of Blood"-FAILED-11K

Hey everyone! My name is Nicole, and this is my 4th NaNo. It's my first time writing true sci-fi...ever, though. I'm really excited, because I'm a big fan of the genre and I'm looking forward to putting my own twist on it! (For the record, I'm writing an alien abduction/invasion story). The story is mainly sci-fi, but there's also a romance subplot, and some YA by default because my MC is 13 years old. I'm not really going going to focus on YA issues, though. It's mostly going to be the alien thing.

(btw, I would love to talk to anyone else writing alien stories, because I have a feeling I'm going to need a LOT of help)

It's pronounced "dack" -- All my stories are autobiographies. Some are just a little more shameless than others!

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