Get your own Free Home PageBefore I got interested in music, I dreamed of being a science fiction writer. From the time I was in the third or fourth grade, I came up with elaborate ideas for novels which would be turned into movies that I could star in. Following are some of these ideas, in roughly chronological order. I worked on some of these for years, making numerous changes in the plots; the dates indicate the year in which each story-line reached its final form.
A ship carrying experimental embryos sinks in the Gulf of Mexico in the 1800's. A century later, a horrible creature emerges that is a composite of all the different embryos--he can morph from one giant creature to another (including a giant firefly whose glow is so bright, it knocks planes out of the sky). It attacks Fort Worth, wreaking havoc and knocking down buildings. Important people meet to discuss ways to stop it. They finally think of something, but I can't remember what it was.
A futuristic supersonic transport is making its maiden voyage from Canada to Hawaii. Along the way, a hijacker with a bomb hidden in his arm brace takes over the plane. In the struggle to disarm him, the bomb goes off and the plane crashes into the Pacific, its tail sticking out of the water. The surviving passengers must make their way through the plane's superstructure to the tail so they can be rescued. Some of them die along the way, but the rest finally make it.
(Interestingly enough, this story is similar to the plot of "Airport 77", which was not made until several years later.)
The future story of an amphibious aircraft carrier called the Neptune, capable of flight and limited space travel, commissioned to patrol the Bermuda triangle and discover its secrets. The captain and crew are all specially trained psychics, their paranormal powers being a prerequisite for this mission. They discover that there are aliens in the Triangle, the Pharanites, operating from an underwater base. They live on human blood, and secretly make collections at regular intervals with powerful magnetic weapons. The Neptune and her crew make impressive inroads against the menace, but a government blunder causes the Neptune to be destroyed when they accidentally blow up the Moon.
Later, the Neptune II is built. This one is capable of exceeding the speed of light, allowing them to take on the aliens on their home turf...wherever that is. It turns out they are from another galaxy, an antimatter galaxy, that periodically collides with our own. It just so happens that the rogue galaxy is returning at this very moment, bringing the Pharanite's expeditionary force on Earth closer to their home planet. The Neptune visits the Pharanite home-world, a strange planet suspended between two stars. On their home world, the Pharanites are huge insects-like creatures (they take on a smaller form for Earth). The Neptune manages to destroy the menace once and for all, escaping just in time to return to Earth before the other galaxy moves out of range.
After a probe to the planet Venus is destroyed upon entering a strange energy field in the planet's outer atmosphere, NASA builds a much larger and more powerful probe, Twin Probe II, capable of penetrating the field. It's mission is to study wind currents and make seismographic studies by pelting the surface with nuclear bombs. Since mission control loses contact with the probe after it breeches the energy barrier, it goes on automatic.
Unfortunately, Venus is inhabited by settlers from other worlds who can't understand why this heartless automaton is trying to kill them. Finally, someone figures out how to trigger the bombs inside it.
A newspaper humor columnist is intrigued by his dreams, and pays for a program called "drug-induced dream hypnosis". The dreamer is put so far under that he requires a respirator to do his breathing for him. As a result, his dreams are so vivid that they seem like real experiences, lasting for hours. Marvin undergoes this ordeal, and is soon addicted, going back again and again. It begins to affect his work, and he gets in hot water with his boss. Escaping to the dream hypnosis one last time, Marvin has a nightmare. Because it is so real, he is insane when he awakes and has to be put away.
This was made of of three stories: Corporation, Tanks, and Nomad.
Corporation dealt with a young orphan, Raymond O'Niel, who rises to fame and fortune after a college professor visiting his school discovers that he is an electronic genius. He takes the boy away to study at the university, where he invents the world's first anti-gravity device. Raymond builds a powerful empire around this invention, O'Niel Corporation, and bases his operation in a remote area of the Sahara Desert. The corporation finally gets so large that it is declared an independant nation. Raymond has two sons, David and Lee. David is groomed to take over the business when Raymond retires, although he has no aptitude for it. Unfortunately, he and Raymond killed when the robots working for the corporation revolt. Lee, still a child, takes over the corporation and reveals himself to be a great genius. He reveals to the world that he has created a device that shuts down all nuclear weapons in the world. If they major powers want to make war, they will have to do it on Lee O'Niel's terms.
Tanks was set many years later. Lee is now an old man, and the corporation provides the US and Russia with giant robot tanks, five miles long, that fight each other, one on one, in remote battlefields. In this manner, death is taken out of the equation, and the only casualties suffered in war are financial ones (the tanks, of course, are enormously expensive). Each tank is equipped with an "obedience center", a device which detects human life and shuts down all weapons if anyone is in danger of being killed. Unfortunately, Lee's son, who is beginning to take control of the company as Lee ages, decides to cut corners by leaving out the obedience center on newly built tanks. The result is disastrous: The highly intelligent tanks decide it would be more effective to destroy the enemy's cities than to fight the other tanks. Millions are killed as the new tanks go on a rampage. In the end, Lee O'Niel dies of old age--and all the tanks die with him. He was so crucial to their existence, they could not survive without him.
Nomad was never developed as fully as the other stories. Once again, the tale makes a huge leap into the future, and moves out into the stars. It begins with a cluster of alien worlds that detect a gargantuan ship heading for them, hundreds of thousands of miles long. They send numerous fleets of warships to attack it, but their best efforts don't even scratch the surface. Finally, a lonely alien named Gorin sneaks aboard the giant ship with his one-man craft. He finds an entire planet inside--the Earth, with the Moon used at the tail end of the craft for fuel in its matter-conversion engines. Gorin meets the humans, and finds they are not hostile, they have solved all their own social problems and simply want to spread their wisdom across the galaxy. The great doors to the Nomad open up, allowing access to all the alien ships.
This was a humorous story set several hundred years in the future. The Earth had been sterilized of life many years before, and only a few remnants of humanity remain. One such remnant, Jeffery Davis, is an auto racer trying to make a comeback. In this galaxy, corporations run everything and public revenues are raised by a paramutual system of betting on auto races. It is difficult for Jeffery to break back into the field, since humans are extremely unpopular. As a child, he had been a sort of prodigy,winning ten races before a crash ended his career temporarily. Then, he was accepted because he was young and cute, but now that he is an adult things are more difficult.
Finally, Jeffery gets the opportunity to drive in the biggest race in the galaxy...He only has to find it, for he is forbidden to know where it is. Meanwhile, as he builds a car to take with him, he discovers the chassis of an ancient Terran car made of an extremly rare metal, chromagnium. He calls the car the Silver Rainbow. After many trials and tribulations, he finds the race: On the ruined remains of Earth, which is just beginning to come back to life. He wins the race.
This was a dark post-holocaust story about Adam Fox, who had been saved from the radioactive rubble as a child by the United Reconstruction Society, an organization set up when nuclear war seemed inevitable. Adam had been given the same medication, K-serum, as the other URS members. This was supposed to permanently alter the recipient's biochemistry so they were immune to the radiatioactive fallout. In Adam's case, it mutates him, making him enormously strong. Adam is extremely troubled as a child, but finally covers his raw emotions with an icy exterior. As a young adult, when the URS begins to disintigrate into warring factions, Adam founds the Fourth Allignment: Solitaire, an elite corps of men that patrol the radioactive wasteland and conduct espionage on the rival faction, called the Ants. Adam becomes Solitaire One, and lives the life he prefers: Alone on the radioactive plain.
When he is in his late twenties, Adam is called upon to investigate possible Ant interference in a community of Urbanites (non-URS survivors of the nuclear holocaust). While investigating, Adam falls in love with Marie Daniel, the daughter of a renowned scientist who is being blackmailed by the Ants. Because of reclusive personality, and the life he has chosen, Adam is not able to pursue the relationship, although he admires her from afar, and she is attracted to him as well. Finally, in a fierce battle between factions, Marie is killed. Adam suffers a psychotic break, killing many of his own men in a violent rampage. He is finally hunted down and killed.
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