I haven't put pen to paper yet, but before I start I thought I'd bounce the idea off a few people first. Since this is the "author craft" forum I'm starting here.
I was thinking about writing basically a poli-sci-fi series spanning 5-6 books. It would start in early college with a group of poli-sci students who become disenfranchised with the entire "the spirit of party" system we have today and set out to change government for the better, by getting rid of the two-party system. The span of the series would start with them in school, then seeing the inner workings of "the system" and growing disgusted with it, to volunteering with a non-party group (which they realize later is just a front for a party), to starting their own group, to working their way up through the political system, to becoming tainted in the same ways as the two-party system, to freeing themselves of the system, and eventually realignment of the government as a whole. Instead of using traditional means for political promotion they take fresh approaches of how to "get the word out".
Hopefully, this was clear enough in the concept.
I know it's not really in the realm of traditional fantasy, but I figured you'd all be able to tell me if I'd be wasting my time before I start in on it.
Honestly Aakaakaak, I love this as a backbone. Should I say the skeleton where you hang your story. It's a less distant future than the Matrix, it has a base in several great sci fi works, and it's applicable today and could pull in political science junkies as well as science fiction readers. This is world building.
The problem is, and I'm not recommending that you share this, but this isn't a premise to market or to decide if it is going to be high concept or marketable to a publisher. Your premise needs to be the story of how your characters live in that world, changing that world, what happens to them, what event causes them to change the system, what must they face to do so, what do they have to risk to do so.
If you wish to share one or two short sentences privately (and I would encourage you to keep this private) my e-mail is posted I think.
