/lit/ - Literature

Alright. I think I've gotten another book idea. Basically its a sci fi novel about a person who's a prisoner of some sort. Not necessarily a prisoner, but they're trapped in a solitary space ship and isn't allowed to leave. They've never left the ship and basically they here stories about how the world is like outside. Here, I'd throw in some pretty extraordinary elements, like how there are entire planets dominated by a neo-Nordic empire, or strange planets with strange shapes, the persecution and genocide of people with red hair, etc., and generally any strange news. The idea is to captivate the reader with these strange, amazing ideas and how they could unfold, but they'll never be able to interact with those strange worlds because the novel is told from the perspective of the prisoner, so they share in the prisoners desire to escape. I'd think it'd be a good short story to make just to have fun with creative ideas.

I could also incorporate elements about how all our knowledge of the world we as individuals know (shape of Earth, universe, other countries, etc.) is accepted on the basis of faith on other people's anecdotes.