… and why my science fiction humor/adventure novel is better than Doctor Who.
Oh, I have your attention now, don’t I?
Those of you who are fans of Doctor Who are angry. You are calling me bad names and thinking of unfollowing me. And those of you who have no idea who Doctor Who is are wondering what the heck I am talking about. Well, I am going to do a series of posts explaining how you can help me come up with ideas to take my science fiction series in strange new directions. And if this creation of ours ever takes off and becomes a best seller and gets made into a television series, your ideas may end up being read and seen by people all over this planet.
That’s right, if I like your crazy ideas enough, I am going to use them in part five of the series. I have already written the first four parts, so you may have to wait a while until they are all published, but that gives you more time to think up good ideas.
Now I will try to explain what is so brilliant about my story, and why it has the potential to be better than Doctor Who. There are a couple of things about the Doctor Who story that sets it apart from all other science fiction television shows. One is that they set it up so that when the main character dies, he gets regenerated. He comes back as a new person. He has the same memories and knowledge, but a new body. He doesn’t even know what food he likes until he tries them all over again.
You see the brilliance of this, right? It means that whenever the actor playing Doctor Who wants to leave the show, they can kill him off and keep the show going without a hiccup. That is why they have been making this show in England… with a few breaks… since the 1970’s. It has the potential to go on for ever. The rest of the story is fairly straightforward science fiction stuff. He has a time machine that is also a spaceship, so he can go anywhere of anywhen he wants to. That leaves them an endless and open playground of storylines to play around in.
Well, my series of short novels… you can look to the right on the top of my sidebar to see the cover of the first book… has a similar advantage. I am going to let you in on a huge secret here… not exactly a spoiler so much as a tease… but by the time the fourth book ends, our hero has a way to travel to any other dimension. Don’t worry, there are a lot of other things going on, and it wont ruin it for you to know that this is going to happen. But I want you to stop and think about it for a moment. My hero, who started off this adventure as the janitor on an alien space station, can go to any dimension that we can make up.
And I want you to help me make them up. I will even give you credit for your ideas on a special page in the cover of the fifth book when it is published, with a link to your blog. So what do you say, people? Are you up for it? I am going to do some posts during the next few days to sort of get the ball rolling… get the juices flowing… get the… well, you get the idea. No idea is too crazy, as you will soon see. Anything we can come up with will fit within the framework that I have created. So share this project with me.
As an added bonus, I will even write a human or alien character into the story that is loosely based on your blog persona. You heard me! I can’t guarantee how the character turns out, but that is two chances to achieve science fiction fame. If they ever make my books into a television series, you might even get to play your own character. Who knows. Stranger things have happened.
And all you have to do is sit there and think of crazy ideas.
So join me later to see what sort of ideas I can come up with. And then let’s see if you can outdo me.
Pouring My Art Out 
You really are a smart tart 🙂
Only because Sweet Tart is trademarked… sigh…
This sounds like fun! I’m in.
Just type in the little magic suggestion box.
Soon as I come up with something — I’m going to spitfire through the book again.
My book is an open book…
😎
I’ll step out of character and will try to be actually helpful for once. There is a blogger who has absolutely no shortage of sci-fi ideas – he just writes them out into tiny stories for the photo challenges, and some of those are simply amazing. I think you two could cooperate. In this dimension, you’ll find him at momusnews.wordpress.com.
I will check that out. Thank you.
I totally love this idea! I look forward to reading more, and attempting to come up with some scenarios/settings for this. Thus far, all I have is my now 8 year old son catching me while I was cooking and asking me, “Mom! Do you know what’s the most dangerous about time travel?” Being an adult, my brain skipped through lots of common sci fi variables that could be catastrophic, before I finally asked him, “What?” “If you aren’t careful you could end up in the French Revolution.”
I had no idea that this was the MOST dangerous part of time travel, but I have to admit that he’s got a good point. 🙂
You have come closer to thinking like me than you might end up being comfortable wit…
🙂
sigh… I just noticed I spelled ‘with’ wrong…
We could have it both ways: a comfortable wit that you are comfortable with.
Maybe I am from Long Island and just don’t know it. I am channeling Archie Bunker.
Don’t channel Archie too much! We like to channel “Vinnie” over here and call our youths “utes.” Really confuses the kids. 🙂
What about Vinnie Barbarino from Welcome Back Kotter.
So I guess that your main character is based upon you personally, he will no doubt be incredibly fearless, trendy, kinky, be hilarious with his zany jokes and ridiculously horny, kissing every alien piece of grass in the whole universe, did I say grass? 🙂 Well you know what I mean 😉
He will also have the biggest, wait for it… He will probably have the biggest ray-gun ever invented, and that includes all the back episodes of Doctor Who, Deep Space Nine, Star Trek and Fireball XL-5 but what he won’t have is one of those stupid hats and scarves that one of the old Doctor Who characters used to sport and that could be an asset 🙂
I will look forward to reading your first installment but hurry up with it, or it could be missed 🙂 Have fun now my friend and keep zapping those aliens, the other halves of the one’s you were screwi… I mean enjoying 😉 lmao
Andro
He would be all those things… if he wasn’t so lazy, self-absorbed, sarcastic, irreverent, and so on. Thanks.
tell you what ill license you to use my intergalactic sausage cannon…far better than a ray gun…..for a small fee of course….
I could use it to fatten up the dinos on my farm.
Love Dr. Who and most SF. The Outer Limits is my favorite show and I keep hoping the powers that be will bring it back. I don’t really want to be famous, so I won’t submit. I look forward to reading, though!
You can be famous without anybody knowing it is you, but have it your way.
Rolling, rolling, rolling.
Though they’re disapprovin’,
Keep them ideas movin’ Fiction writers!
Don’t try to understand ’em,
Just rope and throw and grab ’em,
Soon we’ll be living high and wide.
Boy my heart’s calculatin’
That novel will be waitin’, be waiting at blog posts.
(Hum along to the “Rawhide” TV series theme song with the Blues Brothers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRae5mRoRE)
Awesome…
If you can find a way to do what you want to got to it…the Doctor is a fantastic series…love it…even Neil Gaiman wanted to at least write a story about the Doctoe and the two he wrote were superb. I dont’t know about helping you make up stuff though…SF is not my line at all!
Wait till you see my next post. It might give you idea. This can end up being really fun.
Great! Can always use a good laugh!
I will try to make it a good laugh.
😀