Hallucigenia

Logliner · 315 points

215 points to Samurai

15 loglines
35 reviews

1880s London: As an American assassin struggles with her dead father’s vengeful spirit, a mysterious cult attempts to brainwash her into killing Queen Victoria.

June 20, 2026
The richest man in the solar system wants to colonize the stars with his newly invented faster-than-light technology, but every power mad government and greedy corporation will stop at nothing to take it for themselves.

February 14, 2024
An ex-cop with PTSD, hired to avenge the murder of a child, is partnered with an artificial intelligence, but soon discovers the intelligence could be lying and must find the truth before another child dies.

December 19, 2023
An assassin embroiled in a plot against Queen Victoria is psychically attacked by a mysterious cult, flooding her mind with memories from a madman and inflaming her to pursue the cult’s destruction.

December 12, 2022
An inexperienced businessman is forced to choose between allowing his only investor to torture the startup’s artificial intelligence product or hold to his ethics and risk losing the company.

October 24, 2022
To stave off financial ruin, an inexperienced businessman assumes control of a startup to complete their artificial intelligence project while suffering ever changing investor demands.

September 25, 2022
After a road accident, a young malcontent finds himself legally bound to the whims of a narcissistic billionaire who aims to break him as a person.

September 17, 2022
An independent inventor develops the first faster-than-light drive to take humanity to the stars, usurping a solar system of greedy corporations and vengeful governments.

September 11, 2022
After decades of interplanetary warfare, a wealthy inventor leads a team of intrepid adventurers in perfecting a faster-than-light drive to safely scatter humanity among the stars, but greedy corporations and corrupt governments plot to take the technology and steal the future of the human race.

September 6, 2022
The survivor of a failed space mission must prove his loyalties between the bizarre inhabitants of an asteroid colony and the mad doctor who controls the colony or face certain death in the void of space.

June 19, 2022

on 1880s London: As an American assassin struggles with her dead father’s vengeful spirit, a mysterious cult attempts to brainwash her into killing Queen Victoria.

I'm sorry, but that is the absolute worst critique and interpretation I have encountered.
on When his beloved community website suddenly disappears, a stubborn story scientist must fight bureaucracy and greedy corporations to regain control of his domain and bring the site back to life.

Somewhat inspired by recent loglines, eh?
on The richest man in the solar system wants to colonize the stars with his newly invented faster-than-light technology, but every power mad government and greedy corporation will stop at nothing to take it for themselves.

My characters is nothing like that. This is what I went with: After developing the first faster-than-light spaceship, a rebellious scientist must fight off corrupt governments and greedy corporations who will stop at nothing to steal the technology for themselves.…
on The richest man in the solar system wants to colonize the stars with his newly invented faster-than-light technology, but every power mad government and greedy corporation will stop at nothing to take it for themselves.

#4 tweaked: After the richest man in the solar system successfully develops a faster-than-light spaceship, he struggles to find a colonizable world even as he fights off corrupt governments and greedy corporations looking to steal the technology for themselves.
on The richest man in the solar system wants to colonize the stars with his newly invented faster-than-light technology, but every power mad government and greedy corporation will stop at nothing to take it for themselves.

Draft #4: After the richest man in the solar system successfully develops a faster-than-light spaceship, he struggles to find a colonizable world as corrupt governments and greedy corporations attempt to steal the technology for themselves.
on The richest man in the solar system wants to colonize the stars with his newly invented faster-than-light technology, but every power mad government and greedy corporation will stop at nothing to take it for themselves.

Draft #4: slight tweak After the richest man in the solar system successfully develops a faster-than-light spaceship, he struggles to keep corrupt governments and greedy corporations at bay as they attempt to steal the technology for themselves.
on The richest man in the solar system wants to colonize the stars with his newly invented faster-than-light technology, but every power mad government and greedy corporation will stop at nothing to take it for themselves.

Draft #3: After the richest man in the solar system successfully develops a faster-than-light spaceship, he must keep corrupt governments and greedy corporations at bay as they attempt to steal the technology for themselves.
on The richest man in the solar system wants to colonize the stars with his newly invented faster-than-light technology, but every power mad government and greedy corporation will stop at nothing to take it for themselves.

Here's a rewrite: The richest man in the solar system wants to colonize the stars with his newly invented faster-than-light technology, but must fend off, fight, and negotiate with every power mad government and greedy corporation who will stop at…
on An ex-cop with PTSD, hired to avenge the murder of a child, is partnered with an artificial intelligence, but soon discovers the intelligence could be lying and must find the truth before another child dies.

I like your arrangement a lot. Let's see... Hired to avenge the murder of a child, an ex-cop with PTSD is partnered with an unreliable AI to find the killers before another child dies.
on An ex-cop with PTSD, hired to avenge the murder of a child, is partnered with an artificial intelligence, but soon discovers the intelligence could be lying and must find the truth before another child dies.

Form? Do you mean how is it presented? It's a voice inside of a car that it controls and is chauffeuring the MC through the job.