Description

Your Sci-Fi Premise Deserves to Matter in Every Chapter

The Sci-Fi (Non-Romance) Outline Builder is a Claude plugin that builds complete, market-informed sci-fi story outlines with a 5-rule guardrail system enforced at every structural decision. It prevents AI’s #1 failure in sci-fi: treating the speculative premise as set dressing that stops mattering after chapter 1.

The Genre Problem

When AI writes sci-fi, it introduces cool technology, alien biology, or future societies in the opening — then writes a generic thriller or drama where the speculative elements become irrelevant. The spaceship might as well be a cabin. The AI implant might as well be a phone. The alien planet might as well be rural Montana. Without guardrails, the speculative premise decays into wallpaper.

The Speculative Integrity System

This plugin embeds a 5-rule guardrail that enforces speculative authenticity at every structural decision — not generic writing advice, but targeted checks against the specific way AI fails at sci-fi:

1. Premise Dependency: Every major plot turn must be impossible without the speculative element. If you could swap the tech for something contemporary and the scene still works, it fails.
2. Technology Consistency: Established rules about how the tech/science works cannot be violated or conveniently forgotten. No deus ex machina fixes.
3. World Consequence Tracking: Speculative elements must ripple into daily life, social structures, economics, language, and psychology — not just the protagonist’s plot.
4. Exposition Integration: Worldbuilding delivered through action and lived experience, never info-dumps or “as you know” speeches.
5. Character-Tech Relationship: Characters shaped by speculative elements psychologically, culturally, socially — not just using tech as tools.

How It Works

1. Install the plugin in Claude Desktop
2. Run /outline-sci-fi in a new chat
3. Answer setup questions about your subgenre, tone, scope, and speculative concept
4. The plugin walks you through a 13-step guided process — from K-Lytics market research to full chapter outline
5. Every structural decision is checked against the Speculative Integrity System
6. Receive a complete .docx outline with Speculative Architecture Map, character bios, trope mapping, and chapter-by-chapter breakdown

Subgenres Supported

Hard sci-fi, space opera, military sci-fi, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, first contact, generation ship, biopunk, solarpunk, climate fiction, near-future thriller, dystopian, and time travel.

Genre Pillars

• Speculative Rigor: The science/technology must operate by internally consistent rules that shape every plot decision
• Consequential Worldbuilding: The speculative elements must create real consequences for characters and society — the world presses on the characters at all times

What You Get

• 5-rule Speculative Integrity System tailored to sci-fi
• 13-step interactive workflow with approval at each stage
• Speculative Architecture Map (technology rules, limits, costs, world ripple effects)
• K-Lytics market data integration for trending sci-fi subgenres
• Names Avoidance List integration for fresh character/ship/planet naming
• Comprehensive sci-fi trope catalog organized by subgenre
• Complete .docx outline with SIS checks at every chapter

How to Use

1. Install via Claude Desktop’s plugin manager
2. Create a new chat and activate the plugin
3. Run the command: /outline-sci-fi
4. Describe your speculative concept or answer the guided setup questions
5. Follow the 13-step process — each step waits for your approval before advancing

What’s Inside the Plugin

• Speculative Integrity System: 5 genre-specific rules with per-chapter enforcement
• Workflow Steps: 13-step guided process from concept to complete outline
• Trope Catalog: Comprehensive sci-fi tropes organized by subgenre with AI pitfalls to avoid
• Failure Mode Examples: Concrete examples of what goes wrong without guardrails

Requirements

• Claude Desktop (latest version)
• Claude subscription (Pro, Team, or Enterprise)

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