Post by shadow_scribe on May 11, 2008 14:22:51 GMT -6
Starting with a book that doesn't exist yet, but I want to exist. It's sort of complicated, but about 900 years from now, scientists discover a way for people to live above the clouds. They send up 100 familes and 50 singles to live up there as an experiment. The experiment is successful, but the Scientists aren't ready to release this information, and will do anything to make sure these people never come back to Earth.
100 years after this discovery, the Scientists finish a long term "beautification" process, which requires citizens in half of the countries of the world to become beautified. It's almost like having plastic surgery unwillingly. The Government at this point on Earth is extremely powerful, and can do whatever they want, no matter how immoral it may be. After a rare accident in the process that kills the parents of a girl named Karo, she runs away from the processing factory, and has become one of the most wanted escapees on Earth. Around the same time, a 13-year-old girl named Kora, a direct descendant of the first Cloud Experiments, wants to explore beyond the endless clouds. There are areas around the world called Sky Seas, where there are no clouds whatsoever. If any Cloud Member falls through the Sky Sea, they will be killed, if they survive the fall, by the Scientists. Kora accidentally falls through a nearby Sky Sea and finds Karo hiding out in a cardboard box. Together Kora has to find a way to get back up on the clouds without facing death penalties, and Karo must join her in order to escape the Government forever.
100 years after this discovery, the Scientists finish a long term "beautification" process, which requires citizens in half of the countries of the world to become beautified. It's almost like having plastic surgery unwillingly. The Government at this point on Earth is extremely powerful, and can do whatever they want, no matter how immoral it may be. After a rare accident in the process that kills the parents of a girl named Karo, she runs away from the processing factory, and has become one of the most wanted escapees on Earth. Around the same time, a 13-year-old girl named Kora, a direct descendant of the first Cloud Experiments, wants to explore beyond the endless clouds. There are areas around the world called Sky Seas, where there are no clouds whatsoever. If any Cloud Member falls through the Sky Sea, they will be killed, if they survive the fall, by the Scientists. Kora accidentally falls through a nearby Sky Sea and finds Karo hiding out in a cardboard box. Together Kora has to find a way to get back up on the clouds without facing death penalties, and Karo must join her in order to escape the Government forever.