For those who love star trek or those who interested in the planet Mars or just science fiction this story could be interesting for you.I'm working on a science fiction story (minus all the confusing sci fi vocabulary and language) called Mother Strength (the title may not come close to sounding science fiction but the themes are the backbone of the story.) Basically the story centers around three main characters (none are American and none are humans, except for a few extra characters.) All are Martians and the de facto main character is an alien from the planet Kenesia. Plus there are extra characters in the story who becomes the center of attention once in awhile. The story has Mars as a universal superpower (The idea for Mars as a superpower came from Bush wanting to explore space and the two rovers landing on the planet.) However Mars isn't all a great superpower, it has problems of its own. One of the main characters named Pooja lives in poverty in a diseased infected village, having to look after one million children. The other main character Gujuro and his older brother Hatem (the names are Indian and Middle Eastern I know.) barely sees their mom after she gets a job at a hospital which is in the next city outside the Martian capital. But their grandmother takes care of them and becomes a second mom. The third main character, the president of Mars Alcazar Baudioun (is the exact opposite of our current president.) leaves all of Mars' problems alone and travels to a wartorn planet named Kenesia where he experience first hand the problems of being displaced, being a refugee, poverty, illiteracy, ignorance and his own planet acting as a selfish superpower who looks out for only its citizens and security above all else. And puts the attitudes of his planet's behavior into questioning.
Themes of the story are poverty, illiteracy, refugees, overpopulation, genocide (Kenesia), ignorance (Martians have no clue what's happening Kenesia or on the other planets as the Martian media doesn't report it or most folks find the news boring to watch.) and disease (Mars has the most money to afford medicine but doesn't think of helping out the other planets unless the Martians get something in return.) And Mars has the annoying "its about us not you" foreign policy and attitude towards the other planets hopefully this description of Mars sounds quite familiar.
I know, science fiction doesn't have all this , but I decided to keep the story in sci fi mode and threw out the famous advance alien civilizations, man exploring space, robots serving the human race, and future styled places, none of are present in the story. I'd like to know what others think of this story...
