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Re: Ask HN: Burning idea for a story you've always wanted written?

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Post by eli_gottlieb »

capnrefsmmat wrote: post #11

Imagine if Hell were a sort of financial market. Demons trade soul futures, essentially betting on the future price of souls, which of course they consume for food. Other demons (backed by investors) devise new schemes to tempt humans into mortal sin. Failure means the souls go to Heaven, not Hell. If the demons bringing in souls should somehow create a bubble with a grand new scheme that's guaranteed to bring many s…

This sounds absolutely hysterical! I think your main character(s) should be demons who work for the Hell SEC, who are trying to fight their way through corruption and bureaucracy to stop the bubble before it's too late and a huge quantity of souls are lost to the vile clutches of God in Heaven.

Re: Ask HN: Burning idea for a story you've always wanted written?

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Post by bqe »

sarreph wrote: post #4

A book about a guy who crowdsources idea for a book, and ultimately decides that the story will be about a guy crowdsourcing ideas for a book. Repeat indefinitely. --- Alternatively, outsource several trillion monkeys to type apparently random characters until you are left with a work that is more intelligent than Huxley, more potent than Shakespeare, and wittier than Stephen Fry.

Write it in the second person about the reader, who is crowdfunding said book, a la "If on a winter's night a traveler".

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Post by auerc »

A group of scientists find undeniable proof that multiple deities exist in the universe, a story of what becomes of all the worlds religions as a result. I find it interesting to think how the worlds religions would react to such a discovery . Would they throw away their previous believe systems?

Re: Ask HN: Burning idea for a story you've always wanted written?

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Post by monsterix »

amerika_blog wrote: post #23
monsterix wrote: post #18

A close account of how the world/nations/family/people would look only 50 years from now? - post oil, post-anything that's supposed to die and with whatever that's supposed to be adopted.

Aldous Huxley beat you to it.

Re-re-visited in a more number-crunching way? :-)

Re: Ask HN: Burning idea for a story you've always wanted written?

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Post by ksrm »

hluska wrote: post #20

I've always been drawn to a world in which neural implants are so widespread that they begin to attract malware developers. Seems to me that when humanity's age old enemy (the virus) crosses the human/machine divide, some interesting (and not entirely pleasant) things will happen. * edited for more inclusive language.

"Your children's minds have been encrypted with RSA-2048. To retrieve the private key send $300 to the following Bitcoin address..."

Re: Ask HN: Burning idea for a story you've always wanted written?

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Post by amirouche »

capnrefsmmat wrote: post #11

Imagine if Hell were a sort of financial market. Demons trade soul futures, essentially betting on the future price of souls, which of course they consume for food. Other demons (backed by investors) devise new schemes to tempt humans into mortal sin. Failure means the souls go to Heaven, not Hell. If the demons bringing in souls should somehow create a bubble with a grand new scheme that's guaranteed to bring many s…

Is it possible to write this book and have also inner stories for each souls? You can take inspiration from the french Book «Empire des anges».
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