More On Big Ideas

Yesterday, I mentioned that I had a lot of "big ideas" for new novels moving forward. As I was writing that post, I realized that I also had "big ideas" when I decided to write The Milk Run. Since I don't have a lot of time left (only two weeks) to cover these, I cherry-picked the best ideas from that book and will cover them over the next 15 days or so. Here is a list of just some of the ideas I wanted to cover:

- Exploring a grownup Aason and Lupe Bierak
- Creating a cosmic detective story based upon a mistake
- The amazing coincidence of that "new to Lupe" was really Nu2 Lupi
- Creating the mystery of the K'val by writing the story backwards
- Revealing what happened to the final Ark, Ark IV
- Exploring what an ice planet might be like.
- Exploring creatures with blood based upon cyanoglobin
- Reliving Rome's training with Aason and Aroline
- Trying to create a realistic first contact with a true alien species
- A 35th century dogfight over the skies of Ay'den
- Exploring plant people, from seedlings to ambulatory to trees
- Speculating on silicon-based DNA, the living crystals
- Introducing a creature, Molokai, who claimed to be a god
- Slicing off Aason's hand as the ultimate act of friendship
- Creating the largest starship in the galaxy
- Speculating on higher and higher dimensions, in infinite directions
- Bringing back the Stareaters as a plot device
- Exploring life as a shrimp (huh?)
- Demonstrating that purgatory is real and speculating on its purpose
- Determining the purpose of the soul
- Proving that Hell is mathematically impossible
- Speculating about a Heaven, inhabited by gods
- Speculating on God, above all else
- Bringing back the characters Jack and Lacy Henry, in Heaven
- What would gods fight about?
- The nature of consciousness and the soul of a machine
- Creating a "cute" version of Junior, Junior, Jr.
- Granting Rome and Rei immortality

These are just some of the ideas that I wanted to explore in The Milk Run. If I had another year of blogging left in me, I would cover them in much more detail. But as it is, you'll have to settle for a capsule version so I can embark on my quest to take Rome's Revolution to Netflix and beyond.