Comment by Andrex
5 hours ago
This lines up with a book idea I've had for like 20 years. Crazy!
Don't wait to write sci-fi I suppose! Life may catch up, haha.
5 hours ago
This lines up with a book idea I've had for like 20 years. Crazy!
Don't wait to write sci-fi I suppose! Life may catch up, haha.
I'm trying to work out how the fungus evolves to grow its food source by causing radioactivity increase?
It can concentrate radionuclides, but the step function after inducing some criticality is likely to cause reproductive difficulty (stopping fungus evolution).
Plus: heavy metals combined with organics have a tendency towards being nasty poisonous
Idea is nothing, execution is everything.
Just write it if you want to.
Also, doesn't matter if it's been done before either. Lots of very popular books are quite similar to books published before them. Sci-Fi is not immune.
There's all sorts of memes about SciFi films that borrowed ideas and motifs from earlier works... but often when you did, it comes out that the earlier works also borrowed those pieces.
I had a similar thought, ideas are cheap. Loads of people are like "I have this GREAT idea for an app, I just need a developer to build it!"... as if the idea on its own has value.
Unfortunately and / or fortunately thanks to AI tech, anyone with an idea can now throw it at an AI and see it materialise.