Here’s an idea for a leftist fantasy novel I came up with: A prince/princess of some fairy tale style kingdom is sent abroad on a diplomatic mission, ends up having their propaganda bubble popped, learns about communism, and vows to enact worker rule once their parents die. Once they come into power, how might they set about this if they started from a feudal society, while making sure counter revolutionaries (in this case, like nobles, clergy, other members of the royal family, etc) don’t reverse what they’re doing?
There’s the story of Puyi, the last Chinese emperor. I’m not sure if he deliberately gave up his powers, but it’s well known he was re-educated and got inserted into Chinese socialist society.
(by the way, you’ve been consistently posting about book ideas over the last months, why don’t you create and moderate a community for it? that’d be cool)
I’ll have to read about the emperor you spoke then, very interesting bit of history I just learned about!
There’s already !writing on lemmy.ml, as well as !worldbuilding, but neither seem very active. Admittedly, I’m a world builder at heart more than an actual story writer. I like to flesh out worlds and write detailed lore descriptions in the style of a textbook or paper, but when it comes to actually writing the plot for a story, I find myself struggling, especially with pacing and adding in too many characters.