My Novel Idea
Well, I've decided to post my idea for a Novel here, which I was planning to do for awhile now. As some of you may or may not know, it's set in a Dystopia future society. I shall post the basic synopsis of my novel. I currently have no title, so bear with me.
The story is set in the late 23rd century, and humanity is fully united and rules most of the known universe. It retains the universe's largest and most advanced military force, has colonized millions of worlds, has subjugated or destroyed hundreds of alien races, and is home to over sixtrillion citizens. How ever, the entire human race are now ruled like insects. The greatest crime one can now commit is any thought of Self, the thought that something belongs to you, and not the hive and your comrades. Self comes in many forms, but a few examples would be gaining and keeping personnel material possessions beyond necessities, human love, and having children with the idea to start a family and not to simply breed more humans for the State.
Human society is divided into strict classes, and any human born into one class remains that class until their death. The Classes are these:
The Elites: The Sprawling bureaucracy of the human empire, The Elites are in charge of oppressing the drones and creating the soldiers. The Elites maintain a huge secret police, which ensure any thoughts of Self are brutally and quickly punished.
The Drones: The Workers of the new human state, most Drones live short, miserable lives on the thousands of production-class worlds. Their only purpose in life is to construct weapons and armor for the soldiers, colonize new worlds for the state, and breed. The Drones are by far the most oppressed class, and most Elites think them sub-human. Billions of them die in one month alone, but the humans produced in that month more then make up for the losses.
The Soldiers: The Soldiers are raised in vats and are genetically enhanced to be physically superior to other humans. Most soldiers are over seven feet tall, and with their battle armor, weigh almost 2,000 Terran pounds. They have nearly the same living standards as the Elites, as the state believes it's soldiers must have every comfort that can be afforded to them, as they do all the conquering. Each hive world as a division of Soldiers "protecting" it, but many of the divisions torture the Drone populace or exploit it to their own ends. At times, there seems to be a power struggle between the Elites and the Soldiers, as each is a valuable asset to the State and have almost equal status.
That's all I can think of, at any rate. I'm still working on the characters, but the rest of the plot revolves around a group of Self Criminals getting together and joining a resistance group bent on taking out The Progenitor, the mythical founder of the current human State.
What do you think? Good idea, bad idea? Rubbish or gold? Will it stand a chance at getting published? Let's find out.
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Originally Posted by Honor&Glory
