That movie stole my book idea! REALLY!

[Ramo]

The Boat of a Million Years.

Decent novel BTW (by sci-fi standards).

[Wiglaf]

Veseyan it is time for you to retire. Hang up the big guns, go home. This is simply the worst idea for anything that I have ever heard, and I do not doubt that anyone who uses this idea will employ distractionary devices to appeal to its audience aside from this simply inane and utterly useless and unoriginal plot. Get out of your slumber and wake up, the world is calling and reality will kick you in the nuts.

[Japher]

New Amsterdam looks good .. uh

[Impaler[WrG]]

The Boat of a Million Years

[Darius871]

Stop whining, Jurassic Park stole my idea in Billy And The Clone-a-saurus, but it's my own damn fault for not getting a copyright.

[Wycoff]

D.C. Comics has a villain named Vandal Savage who resembles the hero of your story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandal_Savage

[EPW]

Isn't there a Star Trek TOS episode where something like this happens?

[Riesstiu IV]

They took yer jerb!

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Lorizael

Typo ><

What I meant is that it is told from a first person narrative and told as if it could be a true story. There are no fantasy or scifi elements in it. I have tried to make it as plausible as possible.


Impaler, feel free to pass it out any hole in your body heh .

Originally posted by Wycoff
D.C. Comics has a villain named Vandal Savage who resembles the hero of your story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandal_Savage

My protagonist is not really like Vandal Savage. Vandal savage is a super genius and actually immortal, he has super powers, my protagonist does not.

[Vesayen]

Snoppy, I got the Garden of Iden from my library today and read about a hundred pages, I really like the book, thank you for the recommendation! Going to go pick up the rest of the authors books as I have time to read them.

[snoopy369]

You're welcome Her other stuff is quite good also (non-Mendoza) ... she has a very, hmm, active imagination. I can imagine Mendoza being a childhood fantasy (not THAT sort of fantasy, though i'm sure Mendoza is quite hot being a spanish gal and all), but the sort that a kid imagines instead of dealing with reality...

[Berzerker]

This is the exact same date as the movie. I set it for 14,000 years ago because that is when the Caspian sea and the black sea may have flooded, which may be the origin of the flood myth.

I was watching a docu on killer whales and they were talking to a really old Tlingit Indian w/translator and the guy just said out of the blue that the Great Flood happened 14,000 years ago. This jives with the science as vast stretches of land like the Bering land bridge and the Sunda Shelf became submerged fast enough to kill lots of people and leave a lasting impression. But the Black Sea didn't flood until much later, maybe 5500 BC (didn't even know the Caspian flooded other than from run off from the ice sheet).

Sounds like you got the Sumerian Flood myth there, Gilgamesh goes in search of immortality (the tree of life) and he seeks out the Sumerian Noah (Zuisudra) for knowledge of the plant/tree. He didn't find it, your guy does.

[Vesayen]

You are reffering to a theory that talks about a flood in the region around 5500 BC or so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_theory

Another flood proboably occured in the region 14,000 years ago, from the black sea into the caspian sea, which for our poor protagonist, wipes out the society he has been a member of the whole book. I picked one of the theories(the one I knew of at the time) and ran with it, it seems likley I will have to fudge the dates and update it some by the time I finish, but that should not be all that difficult.

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by Gibsie
"Acclaimed Sci-Fi writer Jerome Bixby conceived this story back in the early 1960's. It would come to be his last great work, finally completing it on his deathbed in April of 1998"

[Lorizael]

Original as always, MOBIUS.