Topic: Greetings!

I'm new to the site so I thought I would just give a little info about myself. I like reading all types of fiction, mostly action/adventure types, but I'm open to anything. I am currently writing a sci-fi novel about a young man of today's age being transported 2,000 years into the future, and would love to get some reviews from you guys! I'm new to a lot of this stuff, so I apologize if I come off like a greenhorn.

Re: Greetings!

Will, if you're interested, a bunch of us have gravitated to the Medieval Fantasy/Magic forum for brainstorming. It's a diverse group, including various fantasy, science fiction, and thriller stories. Create a thread with your book title and username as the subject line (e.g. 2000 Years Later - Will H.). Then whenever you want to brainstorm, ask questions, or have a discussion, just add a post to your thread, and everyone who is subscribed to it will be notified via email and usually respond in a day or so. Leads to interesting and very helpful suggestions that go beyond chapter reviews. I use mine all the time. There is a Science Fiction forum as well on the site, but almost no one posts there. If you need broader expertise, you can also post to Premium to reach the widest possible audience, although some of those have been known to go off the rails.

Re: Greetings!

Dirk B. wrote:

Will, if you're interested, a bunch of us have gravitated to the Medieval Fantasy/Magic forum for brainstorming. It's a diverse group, including various fantasy, science fiction, and thriller stories.

There developed a cultural phenomenon when sci-fi gravitated away from science into medieval fantasy, quite early on from the mid-1960's with Dune, exemplified by the Star Trek (science)/Star Wars(medieval fantasy) divide. Linking this to the Strongest Start contest would it not be a good standard if an author signals in the first thousand words the sub-genre type of sci-fi he is crafting! Fantasy, especially of  the YA type, signals this quickly, often effecting a strong start of this type, but sci-fi writers do not do this and only eventually drift off into fantasy fairly unrelated to science at all. Where are the Asimov's who know science?

Re: Greetings!

Will, see if you can find a free image for your front cover for use on this site. It'll draw more readers than the plain red cover.

Re: Greetings!

Alright. I’ll look at generating a cover for the novel.