[Suzerain of Sheol]

I've never attempted sci-fi before, mostly... for the following point, that I firmly believe that a secondary-world genre piece (be it fantasy or science fiction) needs to spring from a core idea that transcends the medium. Put plainly, to me, the story cannot be about the setting, mostly because there is just so much that's already been done, that it's next to impossible to make a work stand on the merits of its imaginative elements alone. So, I feel that science fiction needs to have some kind of purpose (even if it just particular scenes that, in the context of the universe you've created, will resonate with powerful emotions in the reader) beyond telling a dramatic narrative conflict in a certain type of setting.

To springboard off of that, I've had the idea for a... I suppose "fantasy" is the closest descriptor... trilogy for some time now. It would involve a roughly biblical setting, incorporate a great deal of angelology and Kabbala elements, and follow the story of a false prophetess reared by a renegade angel to destroy the world (to simplify a labyrinthine plot in a single sentence; it is much, much more complex than that), ending in her abject failure and public execution in what I intend to be a deconstruction of the Hero's Journey as outlined by Campbell and as witnessed all throughout traditional myth and fantasy fiction. And yes, I mean to publish it someday.

That probably sounds ridiculously pretentious. There's a reason I have yet to write a word of it. :p In all seriousness, I constantly feel like it's too much to take on and I'm not ready to write something of that scope.