The random plots below were created by Abigail, Adam, Annie, Ciaran, Evie, Greg, James, John, Luke, Rob, Sam, Samantha, Taylor, Tom, + 2 clots who forgot to put their names on their sheets, all of Gordano Community School, 4th December 2006
| Genre | Environmental fantasy, with a bit of war thrown in | Sci-fi, comedy, fantasy, horror, chickflick. | Sci-fi romantic comedy espionage fantasy | Sci-fi |
| The main character is a | A hippy yeti | Young drugs dealer with a death-wish | Cauliflower with a limited cheese allowance | Evil alien gingerbread man |
| The main settings are | A giant Lego castle, dustbin, acid swamp | A fantasy cloud | Mercury and London in the year 2152 | Gingerbread space house |
| The story is told from the point of view of | A secret agent | An apparitional demigod | An all-seeing robot | An alien killed in battle |
| The main themes are | Cake rights & terrorism | World domination | Carrots and broccoli | Eating and explosions |
| The unknowns are | What happened to the rockets? | The unknown criminal organisation known only as 'ME' | Who is stealing the parakeets? | What is the gingerbread space house made of? |
| The structure of the book is | 3 threads, eventually meeting | 2 threads | 401 threads | 294.5 threads |
| Thinkbot's viewpoint | A secret agent, on the trail of some stolen November 5th rockets, infiltrates Legoland where he discovers a hippy yeti is holding several staff hostage in his acid swamp. The Yeti demands that cakes should be given the vote. When asked why, the yeti replies that cakes were more likely than humans to elect an environmental-friendly government and not be thrown in the dustbin when they passed their sell-by date. | A multi-genre book that will only confuse the poor girl trying to decide which shelf it goes on in Waterstones. Apart from that I remain mystified but luckily it all occurs safely above my head in a cloud where I'm quite happy for demigods, death-wish drug dealers and ME to battle it out until they suddenly get covered with ice and fall harmlessly to earth as hailstones. |
It's the year 2152.
Cheese, carrots and broccoli are in short supply on Earth. Even the
Gordano school canteen is struggling. One has to travel to all the way
to Mercury to get a decent cauliflower cheese with veg. Trouble that it is likely to be cooked and eaten without cheese, a disgruntled cauliflower MI6 agent feigns love with the all-seeing robot that now controls Earth. Whilst at the robot's apartment, the cauliflower discovers the horrible truth about the global shortage of parakeets - the Robot has linked up with Jamie Oliver and plans to serve them to school children. |
Oooh! Looks like there's some collaboration gone on with this one. And it's no ordinary gingerbread man - like the ones in the bakery that smile at you through the window. No, this is an evil alien gingerbread man (but how would one know?) Anyway it travels the galaxy blowing things up and eating them. |
| Genre | Sci-fi fantasy | Romance | Romantic comedy | Sci-fi |
| The main character is a | A 7-legged dog & a 3-legged spider & a blind but fluent in spanish parrot | A talking dustbin | A chicken airline pilot | A time-travelling pirate |
| The main settings are | A school of killer teachers | An abandoned school & a recycling centre | Woods, castle, aeroplane designed by goblins | A spacestation & a desk in Gordano school |
| The story is told from the point of view of | An old woman | A psychotic chicken | The Sun | A yodelling princess from Denmark |
| The main themes are | Exploding bananas in a house of chickens | Elastic bands | Peace, love, be nice to Earth | Are some of the characters aliens? |
| The unknowns are | Buying things from argos? | What could the cauliflower do to end the prophecy and save his son? | Will the mouse reach the cheese in the pantry? | What's in the cupboard |
| The structure of the book is | 17 threads | Overlapping | 7 threads | Narration |
| Thinkbot's viewpoint |
Blind Spanish parrot
surgeon gets the leg-transplant surgery all wrong. It's
not surprising since its working with the 'Easy Home Leg Transplant Set'
from Argos.
The school of killer teachers dive deep into the ocean searching relentlessly for exploding bananas and chickens. Are you following this? No? Well that's not surprising as it's all taking place in the mind of a confused old lady in an old people's home in Portishead. |
Oh! Horror! A young
innocent, apparently anonymous cauliflower is left stranded at a
abandoned school when the pupils revolt over the final- day canteen
menu. Swept into the recycling it looks like the ancient prophecy that
the Son of the Great Cauliflower will become psychotic chicken-fodder is
going to be fulfilled. However, the evil chicken has not reckoned with
the the Great Cauliflower, who hides in one of the dustbins at the
recycling centre and reasons with the chicken until it walks into an
elastic band booby trap, and . .
Sorry, what happens next is Certified as 18. |
 CHICKEN WINGS! Chicken Flies Off in Goblinair Plane Shocker! Come on Britain! Help those Loyal Blue-Blooded Mice get their Cheese. Elvis Still Dead! Don't Pull the Wood Over Our Eyes! GOB-SCANDAL - 500,000 Illegal Goblins live in UK. |
A yodelling princess from Denmark relocates to Portishead to get into Gordano school. Sitting at a desk in H2 she discovers a sub-space passageway to a space station where she meets a time- travelling pirate who owns a cupboard from 1956. Opening the doors the princess finds herself staring at the first class who occupied H2 when Gordano opened. Inspired, she starts yodelling reflectively whereupon the pirate gets turns into an alien and yells, 'Hey! Shut up! This plot was going okay until you started yodelling.' |
| Genre | Sci-fi fantasy | Fantasy | Romance | Romantic Sci-fi |
| The main character is a | Ballet-dancing hippo | Alien clown from Queqzal | Pumpkin, banana sausage man | Ninja |
| The main settings are | An orbiting space station slowly spiralling into the sun | McDonald's, B&Q and a minefield | Under a science teacher's desk and under the school stage | A futuristic polluted world populated by yetis & frogs |
| The story is told from the point of view of | A chicken | A talking dustbin | A bloodthirsty gnome | The clouds |
| The main themes are | Fishing, love and murder | Love | Love | Nothingness |
| The unknowns are | Will evil prevail | 'The Chosen One' song from 'The Mighty Boosh' | Does Squeeky learn to fly? | Why people are doing less stuff |
| The structure of the book is | 25 points of view linked by green string | Each chapter shows a different person's viewpoint | 4 threads | 2 theads |
| Thinkbot's viewpoint |
 +Oh
yeah . . A ballet-dancing hippo in zero gravity? And have you ever
seen a chicken staring into the sky, wondering if that space station is
really falling into the Sun?Alas, fishing, love and murder accurately describes many modern marriages, and I am sad to say that I think evil WILL PREVAIL in this particular case. |
McDonalds. B&Q and a
minefield? Sounds like The Mall. A man accompanies his beloved to The Mall. He becomes so disoriented that he believes he's being talked to by a dustbin. The dustbin tells him of a alien clown from the planet Queqzal and suggests he forgets this plot, leaves his loved one and goes home to watch:
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Squeeky, the
pumpkin-banana-sausage man, who lives under the school stage, only has
one ambition -to learn to fly. Squeeky makes her way one night to the science lab in search of aeronautical data only to meet a gnome who lives under the teacher's desk and claims to know the secrets of flight. Well it's clearly a love at first sight - that being the site of Squeeky's yellow blood as the gnome gorges himself silly. |
Pollution has wiped
out the human race. That's why people are 'doing less stuff'. They're
not there to do it. After billions of years Yetis and frogs evolve
enough to finally notice that nothing much is happening.
The Yetis and frogs stumble across an ancient ninja who explains all. The clouds then go off in a huff as they 'knew all that ages ago'. Under a cloudless sky the Ninja, Yetis and frogs die from heatstroke and nothingness wins out after all. |
| Genre | Horror | Action, fantasy, love | War fantasy | Sci-fi |
| The main character is a | Evil chicken | A pumpkin who jumps out of trees | An octopus | Dalek with a cold |
| The main settings are | Inside a packet of liquorice all-sorts | Space | Flying land | A giant banana skin and a plane that does not exist |
| The story is told from the point of view of | A one-eyed science teacher & his pet cat Tutu | A fly on the wall | A suicidal bunny | A pizza |
| The main themes are | Dogs vs cats | Magic | Eating and explosions | Trying to save a kidnapped girl |
| The unknowns are | Will the flesh-eating monsters survive? | The pelican's feet | Why anyone would waste money on this book? | Half a slice of rotten gorgonzola? |
| The structure of the book is | 20,003 threads | 8 threads | Abandon all hope | 1023 |
| Thinkbot's viewpoint | I don't think the flesh-eating monsters will survive unless they get the other characters to eat the liquorice allsorts first. And, I wonder how long the mono-eyed science teacher, presumably driven to evil by his inability to enjoy 3-D I-max films, has been cultivating this micro-world inside a sweet packet? Clearly the cats will thrash the dogs as they have an advocate outside the packet-world - the cat-god Tutu. So, I think the cats will get out leaving the evil chicken to devise a cunning plan whilst the flesh-eating monsters are occupied with dog-pie, deep-fried dog, dog-curry, sweet 'n sour dog, dog-burgers, etc, |
So . . let me see. The
pumpkin jumps out of a tree on a space station. What happens we all cry?
Images of splattered pumpkin spring to mind.
Well, not much as is happens as it's in zero gravity. So the pumpkin just drifts majestically across the capsule and scores a direct hit on the fly on the wall (which had boarded on the pelican's feet). Okay, not much action, but there's more action than love so far. So, time for a bit of magic. The pelican produces a string of knotted hankies from its beak. Eh what? Plot? What plot? |
An octopus is forced
to join the Royal Navy as a special agent, but unfortunately gets posted
to the Fleet Air Arm. War is declared against the flying land which is
constantly getting in the way of the sunshine, and heaven-only knows,
Britain does not get much sunshine at the best of times. The flying land is
blown up but the dust is still a nuisance so the octopus is tasked with
sky-surfing to catch the dust and eat it. Clearly the bunny ended up buying this book. |
Who'd want to be
a Dalek with a cold? It's got those straight stiff arms so how does it
blow its nose (which is presumably inside the can - ooh, very messy).
And the poor thing's sitting forlornly in a pizza joint at an airport,
with a piece of rotten gorgonzola, waiting for a flight that's been
cancelled due an unfortunate incident with a banana skin. P.s. looks like there's no hope for the poor girl . . . . p.p.s. click on '1023' to see it at Cardiff Station. |
