It seems that genres in the speculative fiction field are getting more specific by the year. Want a steampunk young adult vampire time travel romance? Why that’s in aisle 7. Want a cyberwarfare sleuth with a few elves and dragons tossed into the mix? We’ve got that too. Often, though, we can boil things down to a couple of labels. Urban fantasy. Vampire versus Werewolves. Epic fantasy. Sword and Sorcery. Steampunk. Hard/soft sci-fi.
Here then are a few genre themes and ideas that haven’t been tapped into all that much. If you want to take it as a personal challenge to write stories to fulfill all of these, be my guest.
A few of my favorites:
9) Due to genetic degradation, it now takes a village to produce enough healthy chromosomes to make a child.
19) A new drug makes you want what you already have. But over time, you forget they already have it, and think you have to go out and get whatever it is.
6) A new drug makes you think you have superspeed. But actually, you don’t.
3) Aliens invade, then realize they forgot something at home, and go away. And then invade again, a few weeks later.
Any of you all have some genres or themes you think should start taking the spotlight?
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