As per title, this is an idea for a sci-fi & philosophical story I plan to write for the national novel writing month in November.


The provisional title is "Beacon".



'After a global apocalyptic event has decimated the vast majority of life on Earth, an assemblage of scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, theologians and scholars safeguard whats left of humanity's knowledge in a walled-in sanctuary, and are basically the last remnants of the human race. One day, the sanctuary receives a signal from an extraterrestrial race offering safe harbour and a new start in their society, many light years from Earth.

On one condition: Leave everything humanity has ever known behind, and embrace a new and fundamentally alien worldview.



Basically I take an end of the world kind of story, and mixed it in with Neal Stephenson's Anathem. Would you read this?

Boring

Depends on how you do it I suppose. Seems like a pretty generic concept and I'm sure sci-fi will be overloaded with post-apocalyptic chit inspired by COVID. All concepts are made better by the writer. I would read nonsense by a brilliant writer over a good idea created by a piss poor one. Depends on where you take the concept of where they go as well.

sounds interesting af

but then again, im a sucker for everything space and aliens