Story Ideas

IDEA 1
The character goes about their day however as the story unfolds we learn that the city’s network has been compromised by hackers gradually grinding the city to a halt, causing panic and anarchy.

IDEA 2
A friend / relative of the main character is involved in a serious accident and is rushed to hospital. However they don’t have the right clearance for the most advanced medical procedures that could save the person’s life so the main character must seek help from some less than desirable members of society.

IDEA 3
Our character (a reporter) is on the ground reporting on a huge protest which subsequently gets out of hand and ends up running from the authorities after being wrongly accused of being one of the main protagonists.

IDEA 4
Designer babies have long since become a normal way to conceive. However it has created a social divide between the ‘enhanced’ and the ‘natural’. So when our character wants to marry to an ‘enhanced’ woman they have to find a way to fake the parental consent forms so they can get married.

(Because parents spend thousands on creating their baby’s, they have a legal contract over baby’s DNA. So they have to pass off on their children’s partners so not to taint the enhanced DNA with ‘natural’ DNA when they want to have children)

IDEA 5
The story begins with the main character lying on a hospital bed waiting to die. The story consists of him reviewing his life and everything he has seen and done. However right at the end you find out that he is actually waiting to have the world’s first memory transplant to a computer, and his flash back was the computer reading through his brain causing mind to have a ‘life flash back’. Essentially a “technological educed Flash before his eyes”

IDEA 6
Towards the back end of the 21st century, it is a norm for many westerners to have a small micro chip implanted in their brain, allowing them to better communicate with each other and the digital world around them. However a computer virus that has been plaguing the worlds computers for a number of days finds its way into the same network as the implants, it spreads to them, causing them to seriously malfunction, essentially wiping the collective western worlds brains. The only people to escape this are those who were in the middle of a implant upgrade, a bad signal area and most predominantly the lower classes that can’t afford an implant.

IDEA 7
The main character is a surveillance operative. His job entails him sat at a computer station most of the time observing individuals. However the main character has started to fall in love with the person they have been assigned to observe. So when they are told that the assignment is over and the person they have been observing is going to be “removed”, they risk everything to save the life of the person they love but have never met.

IDEA 8
On the eve of the main characters wedding. Their fiancé is arrested and taken away by authorities. They try and find out what has happened to them but they seem to have disappeared. A couple of days later, a work associate of their fiancé comes round to explain the reason they have been arrested.

They have been working for a secret government department outside the law that ‘observes’ individuals 24 hours a day. We later find out that the arrested fiancé had been virtually stalking them for a number of months, before using all the information collected to essentially seduce them.

IDEA 9
A journalist is shocked to learn that someone he has been talking to in cyber space that exchanges classified information with him is in fact a top secret computer system that plays host to the world’s first artificial intelligence. So when the computer tells him it’s about to be deleted, he risks everything to set it free.

IDEA 10
On the same day that the country’s petrol supply goes dry marking the beginning of the end for an oil centred society a husband gets a call to say his wife has gone into labour and must get to the hospital.

IDEA 11
A doctor is on his way to work on a sunny July morning. However the calm walk to work turns into a race to save lives when cars start crashing, planes start falling from the sky and people start falling down dead for no apparent reason.

IDEA 12
A Year after the super-volcano under Yellowstone park blew, the international airways have started to open up again, allowing stranded people to return home. One man returns home to find his country in the grips of a volcanic winter, his family missing and a society trying to cope with aging technologies that are unable to be renewed or repaired.

IDEA 13
The main character is a gun-for-hire, freelance anti-terrorist. However he wakes up one morning to find that his identity has been deleted, essentially making him an illegal immigrant in the eyes of the law. And in a country run by a paranoid government that fears anyone who is “not on the grid” it is a race against time to find his lost identity. But at the same time he wants to spread the word how easy it is for someone’s identity to be deleted.

IDEA 14
The main character wakes up in the year 2030 after being in a comma since early 2008. Despite being encourage to remain in the hospital the main character fashions a quick escape in an effort to search for family and friends. But will the future be a familiar one or one decidable more alien than they expected?

IDEA 15
Set in a country struggling with a major viral infection that has been killing millions in Europe, the narrative charts a society struggling to cope with the inevitable change of social conventions the viral pandemic has produced. The story is centred around a journalist trying to understand how western governments had let the infection get as bad as it has become.