I owned a condo for 20 years. I bought it for 35K and sold it for 97K so the equity thing is legit. When we moved in we remodeled it top to bottom. It was only 1100 sq ft so it was much cheaper to gut than a house. But for a 3 people who are constantly at work and school and school functions...
Any story must have human interest. The writer needs to be able to tell a story. If I do not care about the characters the plot doesn't matter. Personally i like Cinderella stories such as Old Man's War, Harry Potter, or the Matrix.
Your loss of electricity is completely plausible. But not with your timeline. Regarding polarity shift: There is no evidence that a weakened magnetic field would result in a doomsday for Earth. During past polarity flips there were no mass extinctions or evidence of radiation damage...
A large number of robots needing to perform independent functions that vary with the circumstances would require huge memory capacity. Like zombies just bash em in the head/receiver. That aside robots have no self interest. Survival instincts ought to count for something.
First contact of peoples of different social evolution have not gone well with the lower evolved. It is fiction so if you want to ignore disease, prejudices, and self interest of the higher evolved you are going to need to have one heck of a plot.
Also, Robin may be able to get away with being...
So your issue is the response to a pending catastrophe?
In my opinion, possible death has a very real response. Not to be insensitive but have you considered the natural response to learning you have end stage cancer as a prompt in this scenario? The stages to death? Denial, anger...
This sounds like a child's book. Do you want a mystery? A how-to identify species learning tool? Do you want to teach something else like the T-Rex pack (human family unit) co-operation? This is important for you to know before you begin. Do you just want to publish a book with your name on it...
As a reader of Sci-Fi, I'll accept whatever you tell me works in your faux reality. BUT I should be comfortable in your faux reality. Every time your star cruiser leaves the time saving worm hole that takes you from Planet A to Planet B or Galaxy C to Galaxy D, I don't want to have to have it...
A sober tale published in a Christmas edition? Had it gotten traction I would equate ASIS with A Christmas Carol.
I equate them because A Study in Scarlet first appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and A Christmas Carol revolved around Christmas Eve in 1843 and because they both...
I see them, I first used the reply but was told to use the info/help to do it right. That said to use the quote button which I do. But then I was deleting all but the quote part I wanted and leaving the bracketed, back slash QUOTE at the end. So to be clear I should leave in the beginning...