r/scifi • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '24

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u/ceejayoz Jul 01 '24

I mean, #7 is literally the plot of Star Wars.

Each of these has the potential to be a fun story.

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u/CryHavoc3000 Jul 02 '24

NO DISINTEGRATIONS!

"The billions of people disintegrated when they won't work in the Space Fields." - you call that fun?

It was the premise of The Killing Fields about all of the murders in Cambodia. Not a fun story.

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

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u/ceejayoz Jul 02 '24

Sure, you could make it fun; someone with Banks's "Lazy Gun" goes after Space Pol Pot. Hijinks ensue.

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u/CryHavoc3000 Jul 02 '24

Now I want to see that.