Advice/Suggestions for my book...

[Shawn Booth]

I asked this same question on Gateworld so I just copied and pasted it below:


Hey all, so I've been writing a book for a while now on and off and I scratched it and since I am a huge Stargate fan especially SG-1 and Atlantis (I don't like Universe), I wanted it to be similar to that. The only thing in common would technically be the stargate although even that is much different and not called a stargate. There will be a number of different alien races and species but we will also have other humans and human-like races.



The off-world missions would be conducted in teams of 4 like stargate but they're government officials for a secret agency. They're basically SHIELD mixed with Men in Black and Stargate. There will be advanced tech and advanced civilizations that are totally original, most will be friendly and neutral but of course you'll have your bad guys too. I am planning a series since one book or even a trilogy wouldn't be enough but before I even release my first book which isn't done yet but is easily half way through, I wanted to get your advice or suggestions for the alien races and tech.



My basis is that we are the second evolution of humans with the first being long dead yet very advanced and planting our "seeds" all over the universe with seed ships to plant carbon based lifeforms and humans. The book is set in the present day so only the present day technology will be included with some advanced tech scavenged from advanced alien ships found around Earth and used to advance secret technology. I will not have the Asgard in it, yet I will have aliens like them, I like the little grey guys, afterall...



So here is where you come in, what do you think should be the limits to these different civilizations and the limits to our technology found from around the off-world trips. There will be tech like we've seen and tech that is created by my mind but do you have any suggestions or advise for it? I'd love to hear it!



Thanks!

[Jason Conway]

What about a reference to the Roswell incident. Perhaps your guys harvested something useful there? And it would be awesome to finally find out which alien race keeps making crop circles! XD just my 2 cents..

[Shawn Booth]

haha funny, I already mentioned Roswell but I didn't mention crop circles... Of course that alien would have to be using saucer shaped spaceships.

[Fiona Maccafferty]

There are stories about aliens doing Mining in the Andes. Maybe look into that? (Good thing you're not in the US...the CIA might not be that excited about your project).

[Shawn Booth]

(I am in the US... CIA can't do anything and they wouldn't even if they could... CIA has no domestic authority, just like the US Military.)

[Shawn Booth]

Anyone have any specific aliens they'd like to see? Or any kind of situation?

[Deleted]

A water based race, there tech would of gone down different lines. Never been able to use fire plus they'd be more advanced in steam and using water with there tech.

[Maggie Lefebvre]

*cough*Romulans*cough*

[Shawn Booth]

My version of the Goa'uld (well bad guys) is an Empire ruled by an Emperor who isn't human but instead he is a large being (haven't decided what to call it yet) that eats human beings, his guards are required to choose or the worlds choose people to be sacrificed and they're left on the planet where the Emperor hunts them and eats them... Its like an intelligent crocodile that is bi-pedal and possess great strength and is nearly invincible and rules by fear. Its like a Star Wars kind of Empire but I am just creating this Empire now...

[Tom Chambers]

Have you considered a group similar in plot funtion to the asgard. Perhaps something more in the style of the mechanicum of mars from wh40k?

[Shawn Booth]

I will definitely have the Asgard in there but they'll be more like the Asgard we know from the movies Thor, and the second Thor movie. No little grey aliens, well there will be but not the Asgard. I heard of Warhammer but never played it or never even really looked into it...

What do you suggest in regards to them? From what I just read they're humans who grew up in Mars and developed separately, sound like the Ori/Ancients but the people are definitely Ori while we'd be the Ancients, in that sense... Mind you I only read a couple of paragraphs on them...

[Shawn Booth]

Jan 3, 2015 18:10:49 GMT Shauna Alice Keys said:

A water based race, there tech would of gone down different lines. Never been able to use fire plus they'd be more advanced in steam and using water with there tech.

I will definitely also have a water based race, the Aquarians... They will be blue but human-like or humanoid.

[Tom Chambers]

Basically technology whorshiping hoarders who don't even really invent just re discover and attempt to main tain, but in general technology worshipers. They specifically beleive in a machine god and that maxhine have spirirts whicg are sort of part sof the machine god.

[Shawn Booth]

Ahh.

Did any of you read any stargate books? If so, do you like how they write it or would you prefer it to be like the tv shows?

[Fiona Maccafferty]

No, on the SG books (I read the Dr. Who ones, though). And in the AM I will post some resources. I took a screenwriting class once for no reason, and I found some EXCELLENT sites that help you come up with alien species' names, etc...