I
explored the words “miniaturize” and “shrink” with a thesaurus and wrote down
the words that caught my eye. For some reason the idea of shrinking a person
and referring to it as “abbreviating” them, sounded like an insult—something
you would do to them out of animosity. So that gave me the idea of punishing a
criminal by shrinking them.
When
I was little, I saw the movie The
Incredible Shrinking Man and at the end the guy just keeps shrinking and
shrinking. But he finishes his story with, “To God, there is no zero.” This
made me wonder about what would happen if a man just kept shrinking down to
nano levels.
Online, I found
out there are organisms called nanobes—considered to be the smallest living
organisms that are technically still considered “life.”
I also learned
about “quantum tunneling” and considered having my criminal end up reaching
another dimension.
Later, my idea
was already sounding stale. I needed something else.
I have been
interested in exploring the idea of stories that deal with alien invasions that
are so subtle, no one knows they are currently taking place.
I added that to
the mix and at least at this point—here’s the pitch for my story.
When a group of
criminals are miniaturized as punishment to further science, they discover a
race of nano-size aliens currently sabotaging the civilized world.
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