Hi,
I am a computer science student from Germany, but I prefer English. I like reading science fiction and metafiction, but also read other genres from time to time.
I have become obsessed with an idea for metafiction I developed about a year ago and am now writing a novel about it.
However, I find it a lot easier to add more and more details to my plans than to actually write a full chapter and have very little in that regard right now, even though I have enough material for a massive tome.
The setting is about a meta-civilization that has grown so powerful that it has figured out that it does not live in reality but within a computer simulation. Unlike similar stories, this is not played for laughs but is utterly serious. The civilization goes on to develop technology that allows them to exploit small errors in the computers running their reality in order to enter other simulations/stories, running in parallel on different parts of the computer. They make it their mission to help and uplift as many societies as they can find.
The novel itself is about one such other story that gets rapidly put on its head when a literal plot hole opens and characters from the meta-civilization enter their world. The novel starts with a rather normal plot, but by the end of the first chapter, even the narrator is confused about what just happened. It gets both weirder and more existentially terrifying from there on out as people realize just how much their lives are affected by the fact that they are fictitious.
The story is supposed to be philosophical and thought-provoking and is based on slight bastardizations of actual philosophical thought-experiments.
Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, it provides a framework within which other stories can be told. This is the reason I have become obessed with it: This framework can be used to give a scientifically valid and fully self-consistent explanation for any other story, no matter how strange. To a scientist like myself, this greatly increases my enjoyment of otherwise ridiculous stories.
Now the big question:
Does this sound like an interesting idea to anyone else or have I simply become too obsessed to view this objectively?
Note:
I do not expect this book to sell well, since this topic is way too complicated for the mainstream and my writing skill is practically nonexistent at this point. In fact, I am playing with the thought of making this novel publically available for free. I have my university education to hopefully provide money, this is for fun and to see where it leads.
What I would optimally like to see, however, is a small number of fans who appreciate the complexities of the story.
I am a computer science student from Germany, but I prefer English. I like reading science fiction and metafiction, but also read other genres from time to time.
I have become obsessed with an idea for metafiction I developed about a year ago and am now writing a novel about it.
However, I find it a lot easier to add more and more details to my plans than to actually write a full chapter and have very little in that regard right now, even though I have enough material for a massive tome.
The setting is about a meta-civilization that has grown so powerful that it has figured out that it does not live in reality but within a computer simulation. Unlike similar stories, this is not played for laughs but is utterly serious. The civilization goes on to develop technology that allows them to exploit small errors in the computers running their reality in order to enter other simulations/stories, running in parallel on different parts of the computer. They make it their mission to help and uplift as many societies as they can find.
The novel itself is about one such other story that gets rapidly put on its head when a literal plot hole opens and characters from the meta-civilization enter their world. The novel starts with a rather normal plot, but by the end of the first chapter, even the narrator is confused about what just happened. It gets both weirder and more existentially terrifying from there on out as people realize just how much their lives are affected by the fact that they are fictitious.
The story is supposed to be philosophical and thought-provoking and is based on slight bastardizations of actual philosophical thought-experiments.
Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, it provides a framework within which other stories can be told. This is the reason I have become obessed with it: This framework can be used to give a scientifically valid and fully self-consistent explanation for any other story, no matter how strange. To a scientist like myself, this greatly increases my enjoyment of otherwise ridiculous stories.
Now the big question:
Does this sound like an interesting idea to anyone else or have I simply become too obsessed to view this objectively?
Note:
I do not expect this book to sell well, since this topic is way too complicated for the mainstream and my writing skill is practically nonexistent at this point. In fact, I am playing with the thought of making this novel publically available for free. I have my university education to hopefully provide money, this is for fun and to see where it leads.
What I would optimally like to see, however, is a small number of fans who appreciate the complexities of the story.
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