Sunday, February 26, 2012

Short Story Titles For Perspiring Writers Of Speculative Fiction

I'm Anubis & You are OK.
[a chance meeting of a teacher doctor with the egyptian god of death who is actually some sort of extra-dimensional being, musings on death and that sort of jazz]

we don't want you to be yourself
[a satirical look at corporate culture and the irony of commercialism, through the eyes of one of those artistic expressionist types, symbolism]

"Please avoid visits to prostitutes in the future."
[a sleeper agent from an alien civilization masquerading as a human on earth, this particular dialog appears in a confrontation the agent has with a supervisor, kind of like an avatar vibe but low key]

The Tick-Tock Man vs The Morally Corrupt, Ivy-League Educated, Revisionist Historian Who Secretly Is A Hipster.
[comical look at superhero science and such, contrast the whole thing with a spartan society and western-ish timeframe, sounds like a post-rock song, probably is]

By reasonable approximation, tomorrow is a Friday.
[mandatory time travel thingy, school student testing out science project runs into some "technical difficulties", sort of back to the future ode, lots of retconning madness]

Aching wood
[a tribute to coleridge and pirate tales, aching wood being a reference to a dread pirate by name of captain wood and the narrator forever complaining of his wooden leg, spacepiratesyhorror!]

Making Space-Suits For Giraffes.
[light hearted look at how some of us might never be fit for the future, from the eyes of a tailor, couple of movie parodies could be fitted in, maybe who knows - haven't thought about this one, i <3 the title]

e pluribus omnomnom
[a bit like soylent but not quite, a nation that eats together evolves together... if that makes any sense, think olaf stapledon]

Doctor Who ..Dreams A Lot
[sly nod to everyone's favourite doctor, liking the wordplay in the title, must NOT be inception, something something dork side]

The Succubus
[a space exploration team discovers a new planet that could house the many and ever increasing children of earth, the first frontierspacepeople move in, THEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE, not saying anything else]

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