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","is kind.","is amoral.","is well-meaning.","is popular among the people.","is depressed.","can be found at the pub.","used to be a loner.","tends to brood.","is sometimes rude.","always has a quip.","is deadpan.","can be pretentious.","tends to attract trouble.","thrives on drama.","can be forgetful.","is a chatterbox.","has a strong moral compass.","has no principles.","is a smart ass.","loves puns.","says \"sorry\" a lot.","has low self-esteem.","is shy.","can be reckless.","has a healthy ego.","can be a stick-in-the-mud.","has the patience of a saint.","has a heart of gold.","is hard of trust.","can see right through people.","tends to get tongue-tied.","is idealistic."],"genre":["a hard science fiction","a soft science fiction","a military science fiction","a robot fiction","a space opera","a steampunk","a cyberpunk","a biopunk","an apocalyptic ","a horror","a post-apocalyptic"],"about":["Adam and Eve.","the futility of ambition.","the hypocrisy of war.","vengeance.","the 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a meteorite","on an unfamiliar planet","in a future Mesopotamia","at an engineering workshop","near an infinity pool","in the dunes","in Africa","in a dark hangar","on Mars","at an observation post","by an oxygen tank","at a national conference","on Ares X","in a greenhouse","in a nuclear submarine","inside a memory","on a dwarf planet","between two asteroid belts","on Titan","by a black hole","in a void","in limbo","in a space shopping mall","in a casino","in the year 2080","in the year 3012","in the year 4001","in the year 5021"],"plot":["news of the impending apocalypse.","the sentence: \"For the second time in a day, the clocks around the world stopped.\"","the sentence: \"He looked up and saw a sky full of rats.\"","an argument over a philosophical idea that will prove pivotal.","the first contact with aliens.","the looming prospect of zero population growth.","news of a crisis on board a nearby generation ship.","a high-functioning robot that suddenly goes haywire.","someone trying lightspeed travel for the first time.","a chase through the stars.","a space battle that ends poorly for the protagonist.","a scientific breakthrough that will change everything.","a failed experiment.","a failed mission.","an awkward encounter with an enemy.","someone turning up unexpectedly from the past.","someone turning up unexpectedly from the future.","the return of the Black Plague.","the invention of a powerful drug that only the wealthy can access.","someone receiving an unexpected windfall.","the arrival of a powerful spacefaring clan.","the ascension of a dictator to the throne.","an important election that will decide the fate of the galaxy.","the forming of a Resistance.","rumors of a parasite invasion.","a betrayal of interests.","a fight to preserve alien culture.","someone returning from a long voyage.","the death of someone important.","an 11th hour invention.","the sentence: \"What a surprise it was to open the door and come face-to-face with the Lord of the Galaxy!\"","a conspiracy being uncovered.","someone falling mysteriously ill.","with the sentence: \"It had arrived.\""],"note":["someone in the story has been afraid of change.","someone in the story is hiding a criminal background.","someone in the story has a fatal craving for knowledge.","someone in the story is running from something in the past.","someone in the story has been on the run from someone else.","someone in the story still has to atone for a past misdeed.","someone in the story is struggling to live up to societal expectations.","someone in the story will be conflicted about duty.","someone in the story has recently lost someone dear.","someone in the story is harboring a secret that can't be revealed.","someone in the story will fail to protect someone else.","someone in the story will be hired for a morally ambiguous hit job.","someone in the story will make a mistake that will change everything.","someone in the story only wants to go home again.","someone in the story has been an addict for a while now.","someone in the story is suffering from amnesia.","someone in the story is always in the wrong place at the wrong time.","someone in the story is still haunted by a past mistake.","robots are fully sentient in this story.","this story spans five centuries.","this story takes place across seven planets.","everyone is a potential enemy in this story.","aliens are the benign ones in this story.","Earth has already died once in this story.","mind-reading will be a major invention in this story.","traveling constantly at lightspeed has its consequences in this story.","an uncontrollable virus will wipe out a third of the population in this story.","this story spans one millennium. ","not all is as it first appears in this story.","the two opposing galactic empires are the last ones stsanding in this story.","someone will be caught in cryosleep and suspended in animation for a long time in this story.","someone in the story has a lot of hard lessons to learn."],"twist":["It's a dystopia.","It's a utopia.","It turns out that it all happened in a virtual reality.","There is an accidental bodyswap at one point in the plot.","A parallel universe will play a big role in the plot.","It's actually an alternate history.","The protagonist will lose the last war.","The homicidal AI saves the day.","It actually all took place in the past.","It's a space western.","An immoral robot saves the day.","It's a heist story.","It turns out that it all happened in a computer game.","Someone unexpected turns out to be a clone. ","It has an unhappy ending.","Midway through the plot, all other problems will be foregone in the face of a zombie apocalypse. ","The story is a retelling of a Shakespearean tragedy.","The story takes inspiration from the Roman Empire.","The story is a retelling of a Greek myth.","The story is inspired by a famous painting.","The villain escapes at the end of the story.","There are lab rats... and the lab rats live in this story.","The story is a retelling of Alice in Wonderland.","The story is told by an unreliable narrator.","You should write the story in reverse chronology.","The story is told non-linearly.","The story takes place in two different timelines. ","The story is about a civilization that has already collapsed, and it's told in the form of excavated documents.","The story is told from the perspective of a child who doesn't fully comprehend what's happening."],"category_id":111,"created_at":"2019-11-10T11:49:45.000Z","updated_at":"2019-11-10T11:49:45.000Z"}
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