Possible story idea: (slow-acting) FMG virus

It remember me an idea I had had a few years ago when I thought I could be a writer, there was some different things. The new virus was create to distroye HIV and the consequence were enormous changes into our society.

There were height changes after the second and third generation (Of course there was boobs growth too…) Sure my taste for enormous female muscle stories will cause most of the women to growth to enormous proportion.

I’m hoping for someone (a writer) to think about your storie idea (it’s a long time work)

Sorry for my poor english,

X-Greg, the frenchy

Not to rain on your parade, and I rarely offer advice in the story arena, but since I’ve used similar related TF vectors in the past . . . 8)

The characters would be vehicles for you to explore the ramifications of this HYPER-HIV.

This is a pretty sensitive topic to be playing with, especially given the nature of what AIDS does to people in the real world. Instead, I’d suggest using another virus – if you got any real imagination it’s not difficult for someone to make up their own.

The new virus infects both males and females, but has absolutely no effect (good or bad) on males. Males are simply carriers.

Problem with this is that in reality viruses don’t distingish between the male and female sexes in infecting and affecting them any more then trying to engineer one to be used as a bio-bomb to exclusivly elimate specific ethnic groups. (Like chemical agents, they’re just too unpredictable – a danger to user as much as the target.) Trying to artificially limit it to females only would be too much of a plausibility stretch, especially if it’s airborne like pneumonic plague or the flu. You’ll have less of a problem if it’s transmitted by bodily fluids, but again, they don’t distinguish between the two sexes since manipulation of the DNA in the cells in order to produce more of themselves is the only goal of a virus.

Rather, what you’re thinking of would be more akin to Gene Therapy to produce a desired result by correcting an inherent problem in a given indevidual or Nanotechnology where tiny machines manipulate the cellular DNA to change the structure of the body.

AlexG,

Are you really trying to say that a virus that affects only women are scientific impossibility? As opposed to what? Genies? Magical devices that women grow an men shrink? Chemical formulas that cause muscles to transfer from one person to the other?

No, but what I am saying is that if you’re going to be using this particularly scientific formula as a means to an end – do keep in mind that a strong suspension of disbelief / leap of credibility is going to be required in order to create an aura of plausibility on the part of the author.

Generalities, especially in technical subjects, always work the best in a sci-fi fantasy storyline.

As for the rest of your commentary – it’s a non sequitur . . . 8)

I still think this whole issue of virus only affecting females is no more unreal then ANY muscle growth EVER written in the history of FMG stories. There is NO SCIENTIFIC MEANS of enhacing muscle or strength in the level of these stories. The only means of a woman aquiring muscle, is for her to take massive doses of steroids, which most of the times will leave her looking ugly as dog! The only scientific possibility of muscle gain, that we know of, is by supressing the production of myostatin through gene therapy, which is something likely to happen in the next 10-20 years. Anything else, is fantasy. Pure fantasy!

For the sake of argument, lets just say that the virus causes a genetic mutation. Since we know that there are certain gender-biased genetic diseases, maybe the mutation only affects females. Is that good enough?