I'll probably be making more changes.
Backstory (Part One):
It's the 2080-90s and the US wants Canada to join the North American Union and threatens to stop trade with Canada if it refuses. Canada is not interested, saying that joining the Union will put its sovereignty at stake and that it can simply find another trading partner. Canada increases its trade with the Pacific Alliance. The US responds by launching a coup against Canada. The US gives supplies to a small radical Canadian group that wants to join the NAU. The group attacks the Canadian parliament and takes Prime Minister Barnaby Whitmore hostage. (What happens next undetermined.) Canada gets dragged into the NAU and its trade with the Pacific Alliance is dismantled, which angers both Canada and the Alliance. It is eventually found out that the US was behind the overthrow of the Canadian government. This leads to an uprising led mainly by young Canadian activists and their American supporters. The uprising is defeated and the Seen And Not Heard Act is enacted in 2096. The voting age is raised to 30, and every four-year-old has to receive a mind-control chip before starting school.
Backstory (Part Two):
It's 2097, and the war between the Democratic Republic of Russia and the Russian Communist Union has been dragging on for almost two decades. The two sides are currently fighting for control of Putingrad (Moscow). Sergei Vasilevich sends his identical triplet sons to the Canadian(?) side of the North American Union where they are placed in an orphanage. When the boys are four years old, they too have to receive the mind-control chips. Vladimir receives his, but Mikhail and Kostya are both mistaken for Vladimir and sent back.
The actual story takes place in the 2120s. Canada is planning another uprising and Kostya, Mikhail and Vladimir get caught up in it. Vladimir is also fighting the conflicting messages from his mind chip and events around him. His chip eventually malfunctions.
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50,675 / 50,000
nov. 21, 2008 - 21 34
You haven't exactly given us any plot to crit there. It's all backstory.
Is it credible backstory? Yeah, I guess. As credible as any political intrigue/thriller is likely to be, set that far into the future. Putingrad is a nice touch, though.
----------Crashdown (YA sci-fi / horror)
Stranded on an alien world, Ruve must deny his own humanity in order to survive. To get home, he'll need the help of someone back here on Earth. If, that is, he can convince anyone here that he's real.
99 / 50,000
nov. 21, 2008 - 22 45
Well, OK. I figured the backstory was technically part of the plot...
100,083 / 50,000
nov. 22, 2008 - 01 16
I'd say it's plausible except for the fact that America can't stop trade with Canada. It literally can't. If your people are still dependent on fossil fuels, they couldn't possibly stop trade with Canada. Other than that, I think it can work.
And yeah, that's mostly backstory. :P
99 / 50,000
nov. 22, 2008 - 16 02
So you think that even in the 2080s/2090s the US and Canada will still be trading? If that's the case, then what else can the US threaten Canada with if it doesn't join the North American Union? I don't want it to be nukes or anything like that.
50,439 / 50,000
nov. 22, 2008 - 16 30
Why does the US want Canada to join the Trade Union? And why would Canada not want to? Why can't they just trade? It seems like a silly thing for all the events that follow to happen over. I think it needs more thought.
Also yeah, no real plot there.