🦋 Story Idea: "Never Forget"
All I have at this point is the background; I think a good, science-fictiony story could be written with this background but I don't have characters or events yet. A method of memory-enhancement has been developed, I think a genetic-modification method, that leads to a world in which people do not forget anything. However people want to forget a lot of their painful and traumatic memories. So: a method of memory transfer has been developed (note the passive voice: this story is not about these developments, they have already happened in the past), which can move memories between hosts. The memories cannot be deleted -- what is a memory without a host? A new profession springs up of "bearer of unwanted memories". Practitioners are reviled, kind of similar to how our society looks at prostitutes. People with no other way of making money sell their services at memory-transfer labs. The affluent visit these dens of ill repute to rid themselves of memories of rape, shame, abuse, criminality. The story is about one of these memory hosts and how he gets through the day with all the ghosts in his head.
posted morning of Monday, May 19th, 2008
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That sounds like a great concept . .. and in sci-fi, isn't the
concept half the battle?
posted afternoon of May 19th, 2008 by Levi Stahl
That sounds like a great concept
Thanks!
in sci-fi, isn't the concept half the battle?
Weellll... I'm not a big reader of science fiction genre, truth be
told. But it seems to me like that's a criticism I hear made of
the genre and that I hear fans get incensed at the criticism. So in
general who knows? But if I'm going to write a story I would want
well-developed plot and characters in it regardless of the genre.
posted evening of May 19th, 2008 by Jeremy
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