Sword and planet, anyone?

What, like space fantasy? I'm not doing it, but oh my god, I think I love you for starting a sub-genre thread for this kind of thing. Here, come to my side of the internet so I can hug you. ♥

The search has begun, this is page one. Man meet your maker, I give you... the Author. --The Author, The Academy Is...

Hey! I might belong here!

My story is about these girls (we can call them human for now, they are pretty much normal modern girls) getting special powers and then getting transported by accident to another planet (Sista) where they liberate the gorps (little childlike people) from the Pectrites (giant people with horns on their heads) using their new powers which they happened to get from the Pectrites on accident. And there's a lot of exploring this foreign world and seeing cool animals.

But that was the first book. Now they are back at home and will have to defend both Earth and Hetre from the once again invading Pectrites.

And the third book will be on another planet (with more traditional fantasy races for the first time), and the fourth book will be on yet another planet. And then the series will end. That's the plan anyway.

What is your story about?

"I already know the ending it's the part that makes your face implode
I don't know what makes your face implode but that's the way the movie ends"
-They Might Be Giants, "Experimental Film"

I think I may have a place here, since there's an inter-planetary war going on with the Xukyns invading Emberian IV in search of a relic called The Flame Reliquary. Sure, that's actually a sub-plot as the main plot is the main character's search for his father and in turn, realizing this Reliquary actually belongs to him.

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2009 - The Flame Reliquary (Sci-Fi/Fantasy)

Woohoo, I'm not the only space fantasy writer here! And yes, I love that term -- that or science fantasy (though let's be honest, our "science" is pretty much decoration, right?).

Mine takes place in the 1940s, and is about a down-on-his-luck half-Polish, half-Chinese American merchant sailor being magically transported to another planet. He finds that humans already discovered it; unfortunately for him, these humans are Nazis. He has to team up with some of the locals, as well as a transdimensional dragon, and kick their asses back to Earth before they can ally with the greatest military power in the galaxy.

Damn right our science is decoration. I couldn't care less about how much against the laws of physics my spaceships go. XD I ain't a physicist, quantum or otherwise! I'M AN ACCOUNTANT. :P

Very technically mine is a sci-fantasy. :D It takes place on a quarentined planet, so while spaceships don't visit it... often... they are there! And there be aliens as well as matical critters. My space fleet (not that anyone really sees it) is made up of both FTL drives and some very special mages who can..er... ride the space highways. XD I imagine there's ley lines going between stars or somesuch. Planetside leans more towards magitech than physitech... mainly so I can have fun and be creative.

...I'll justify the stuff I pull out of my ass in the rewrite.

I hear that! I use superchargers, intakes, and other car things that people use (hate to use the term Ricer here...) to supe up their cars for my advanced technology XD

2008 - Ephemeral Lamentations (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) -win!-
2009 - The Flame Reliquary (Sci-Fi/Fantasy)

I think mine might fit here. It's sort of inspired by LE Modesitt's approach in the Saga of Recluse where the "magic" works through natural law on a planet colonized by two sets of humans in the distant past which has faded into legend.

Mine is called (for now) The Essence of Magic. It follows Kaarl a student Essence mage. Essence is a substance which is not quite matter and not quite energy which responds to sound and thought. It is the main energy source of the society. Most ordinary people can sing enough notes to get heat for cooking, to use mirrors for communicating, do basic first aid healing, but for the big stuff you need the mages who have to be trained to use Essence force for everything from demolition to healing. On this planet are seven essence producing nations called The Sacred Seven. Even though, ostenibly all countries are sovereign, the Sacred Seven exercise a de facto control. However, since all countries are dependent upon essence for the smooth running of the society a type of peace has lasted for thousands of years, but no technology has been developed beyond simple machines and devices which use essence. The problem - The supply of essence is running out. The story revolves around Kaarl and Lyanna (his girlfriend and "seeker" who reads the ancient languages) who set out to find the archives of the founders and rediscover technology, but not without a lot of trouble along the way. All the time knowing that in saving the world, they will destroy the world they know.

It's mostly political intrigue type stuff.

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Well, mine might fit in... I think. No aliens though but there is space exploration (like what we're doing now in real life) though that's not really the focus of the story.

I think my world (or some parts) incorporate both machines and magic into the lives of the inhabitants. My story would be taking place in the middle of a war and here this is demonstrated. There are people still fighting with sword and bows but they also use guns... but instead of gunpowder, they fire magic spells (I hope you're not lost by now).
Other examples are hover cars, machineries powered by magic (light and such) and others that I can't think about. It might be a little sketchy cause I still don't have the world solid in my mind.

Actually, my first two stories are in the same super continent except that they are not as technologically advanced as the one in this story. I guess I failed for the first two stories because their history is still sketchy so now I'm gonna start from the beginning of it all. Well, not the beginning beginning. Just the turning point before the technologically advanced civilisation fell. I think I'll illustrate the tech timeline below:

Technologically advanced [Relies on magic] (Story 1) ----> Restricted usage of the technology left behind [Relies on magic] (Story 2) ----> Free usage of the technology left behind with slight upgrade [Relies on magic] (Story 3) ----> Slow upgrading of the technology [Relies on magic] /Technologically advanced [Doesn't rely on magic at all] (Story 4) ----> Technologically advanced [Relies on magic] /Very advanced [Doesn't rely on magic at all] (Story 5)

The ones after (/) is about another continent. Story 4 is about these two continents going into war against one another while Story 5 would focus about the continent that doesn't rely on magic at all.
And I'm mostly going on how the ancient civilisations are actually much more advanced than we are (they invented stuff, we just made it better).

Feel free to pm me if you wanna discuss about it/help me with it or just feel like it~
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I'm not sure about my stories genre as it was created from a dare long ago, I was to come up with a world neither technological or magically based, and this world was the result. So the atmosphere on my planet is ionized resulting in it being conductive as opposed to being an insulator, resulting in the lack of any possible complex electronic devices being developed. The main technology comes from an entity that created the life of the planet. The entity is a highly complex plasma form that traveled the stars on a wayward asteroid from it's home nebula. The items that it creates allow the user to take one form of energy and transform it into another, thus the basis of magic upon my world.

I'm going to write a Sword-and-Planet novel this year. It's going to be more He-Man than John Carter.

Y'know. I have no idea if I fall under this genre but it seems to fit my larger overall concept better than saying fantasy/steampunk/scifi hybridization. I have this idea of a future Milky Way galaxy (1-2000 years in our future) where humans are traveling the galaxy, exploring, doing their thing and I have a number of stories I want to set in this future place. One of which I am writing for NaNoWriMo.

The idea is that early on in our explorations of the galaxy, we build a generational ship that went out in search of a new place to colonize. At some point in its journey, many generations from when it departs, something happens that causes the ship to malfunction and crash on a rather underdeveloped planet. The survivors of this crash decide to make the best of it and eke out a living on this new planet. Naturally, they try to use some of the technology from the ship that they brought with them, at least, that which survived the crash. The planet sees quite a technological advancement in a short amount of time resulting in the steampunk-inspired present day in which the novel takes place. The inhabitants even develop magical abilities as a result of the ship's crash. But it's not magic in the "fantasy" sense of the word. It's just a sufficiently advanced technology that, to one who knows nothing about it, looks like magic (Arthur C Clarke said that, right?). A couple of thousand years pass and the crash becomes a legend, a myth, like many stories from our ancient history that are made up but have that grain of truth. Certain ruling powers are using elements of the ship's technology as a means of controlling the populace of the planet.

Lots of adventure and I'm not trying to take the science super-seriously, just seriously enough that it is in that grey realm of believability. Sort of a Alastair Reynolds meets Iain M. Banks meets Terry Goodkind sort of story. And I have at least 3-4 other stories I'd like to tell in this future Milky Way galaxy including stories aboard the generational ship itself and even a galactic war that is brewing underneath all of this.

It's epic. Totally epic.

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Wow, that sounds great, JackLuminous! :D

My already-in-progress-cuz-I'm-a-Rebel novel is sort of a sword-and-planet. Anyway, it takes place on a planet (I suppose), and involves lots of giant insects & ogre-ish creatures for my heroine to fight with her sword.

Cute cops, cool swords, a space station, a detective, and a kraken. Now if only they were all in one novel...

Yay! *Glomps JackLuminous* You are my new hero!
*Stands up and dusts self off* Sorry about that, my overexuberance at a thread existing for my subgenre of SpecFic (that's Speculative Fiction, a.k.a. the supergenre for fantasy, sci fi, magical realism, and who knows what else)
In my setting, the distant planet, called Vanafanyu by the inhabitants and Terlu Niuvu by the humans who end up there, has three known sapient species already living on it: the humanoid Quanafi and Yawurenyi and the feline Myuri. Most of these are late bronze age/early iron age level technology, with the first group and half the second being more medieval to early industrial tech and the other half of the second group being pretty far more advanced than we are toay (nanotechnology for one). My story comes in when one of the two legendary species (Mircon and one I keep forgetting the name of and hence will not end up in my story unless my wordcount gets desperate) is encountered by a diver photographing the flora and fauna of a seamount. The Mircon (read: mermaid-like shapeshifter, does not usually have a fish tail) base most of their technology on volcanic rocks, coral, and of course gold (about the only metal that can handle being under the ocean) and are practically immortal.
Well, let me let my MC tell you what happens...
"I suppose I should tell you a story," she began. "It is the not so distant future and humans have some settlements on a distant planet and no connection back to earth. The sapient species that came before are the Quanafi, Yawurenyi and Myuri all of whom live much as we might have in the bronze or iron age. However, the humans need to rely on the Quanafi at least for their very survival and so when the Quanafi say that the mermaids no one has actually seen that the Quanafi call 'Mircon' should be protected, the humans go ahead and do so, after all, the Mircon are just myths of a bygone age, aren't they?"
Meliak continued, "Meanwhile, deep in the ocean a girl named Meliak has heard rumors of people living on land but never gave it much thought or credence until her sister got trapped in a net made by these land dwellers. Having to rely on them for help, she ended up learning their language and working with them to remove the nets. Then she is asked by her queen to travel to the countries of the land and be an ambassador to them as she is the only one with the connections and language skills to do it. What will happen when the myths come alive and want to become your allies?"

*hugs everyone in the sword and planet thread and teaches her MC how to text message*

EDIT: while my MC is not an Earthling, her constant companions and her windows into the rest of the world are. I know that wikipedia seems to think the MC should eb an earthling, so I thought I would mention that.

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