I had a little hiatus from my blog due to work-related issues, but now I am back again! Thought I'd test myself with a brain exercise that tests my fiction-making capabilities using a limited word sci-fi story format from 1 to 20 words, so here goes:
1 word
Space.
2 words
Corporeal Energy.
3 words
Light speed cruising.
4 words
We're all just stardust.
5 words
Implosion of dwarf star imminent!
Virtual reality superceded physical reality.
6 words
The corporeal evolved into the spiritual.
Haptic feedback: now, the new normal.
Groking the new world: peacefully prospering.
7 words
Switching through virtual planes of existence nowadays.
The cosmos mourned the lack of light.
8 words
Groaning, she went back into her physical form.
9 words
Stuck within the nebula, he debated his last actions.
10 words
Instant transportation- to die and be reconstructed; he'd rather not!
11 words
The new frontier was no longer space: it was now multidimensions.
Big Brother- our overseer- our man-made god: had eyes everywhere.
12 words
Colonisation beyond earth is now a goal and no longer a dream.
Real money no longer existed. Bartering no longer existed. Cryptocurrency was all.
13 words
Moving from one robotic artifice to another prolonged her lifetime but caused dichotomies.
14 words
Space tourism became a massive industry and assuaged the ennui of the very rich.
15 words
Cracking under burnout, she switched on her VR and relaxed upon a sunny white beach.
16 words
Cyborgs, androids, automatons, humanoids, droids, virtual brains- whatever they were called, they were everywhere offering assistance.
17 words
The future was now littered with idiots and was no longer a democracy- it was an idiocracy!
18 words
Polished metal skeletons encapsulated by sleek metal skins was the new fad as humans seeked to live longer.
19 words
Cracking under the weight of information overload, she pressed her eyes and compressed the info within her positronic matrix.
20 words
Lack of privacy was no longer frowned upon. If you didn't use social media at all times, you were backward.
Augmentation of the artificial to flesh and bone woke them up to the advantages of never being tired or weary.
I enjoyed that exercise. What do you do to stretch your mental capabilities?
This was one of the few sci-fi books that made a big impression on me. If you can, have a read of it- it will definitely stretch your mental horizons!
