High Tech Fiction writing prompt
The Engineer Between Worlds
A brilliant engineer living in a technocratic society invents a device that allows the user to travel through alternate dimensions. During her travels, she discovers a dimension where technology has destroyed civilization, and she must decide whether to share this knowledge with her own world, risking total anarchy or withholding the truth to maintain the status quo.
Suggested length: A short story: 1,500 to 5,000 words, or flash fiction under 1,000
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Three ways to take this prompt somewhere nobody else will.
- 1Choose one ordinary object and show how this world changed it.
- 2Start in the middle of the strangest moment, and explain nothing for a page.
- 3Write it as a document from the world: a letter, a field report, a warning sign.
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