Starbound: What Do You Want To Do In The Future?

[gothwalk]

So I'm working on this science fiction setting, Starbound. There's a post coming up on duekstreet.org wherein I'll tell you some of what I want to do in it. Meantime, though, I want to do some market research. What do you want to see and do in a scifi setting? Some bits are preset - it's going to be epic-scale, stretching across many solar systems, and high tech. It'll be used for short stories, maybe even novels, possibly comics, and certainly RPGs. Give me a wishlist.

(I'd really like to see a lot of responses to this, by the way - even if they're just "Die Shatner Die", or "I want lots of dakka", it's all grist to the mill.)

Comments

[giftederic.livejournal.com]

As a fan of Niven and Asimov... I'd like to see physics and cosmology.. All my favourite stories have something revealing about the nature of the universe we live in and/or the way we think about it. From the simple 'The gate is down' in Enders Game to the tidal gravity in Nivens Neutron Star.

First generation colonist stories also interest me greatly... Again, pseudoscientific biology intrigues me...
Legacy of Heorot would be the tale of choice in this category or perhaps Speaker for the Dead.

Interestingly, I don't like my aliens too alien... I love the CJ Cherryh sci fi, but didn't like the stoopid aliens on Pell... (I loved how alien humans had become though...)

And I don't like 'doomed' humanity. I want a world that at the very least Carl Sagan would find hope in.