Adam Bernstr?m

Samurai · 1,133 points

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Samurai

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After becoming the sole survivor of his adventuring party a barbarian now protects the town’s children by slaying the monsters under their beds. But when a rise in monster attacks threatens everyone, he must overcome his survivor’s guilt and PTSD to save the town.

October 27, 2024
When falsely accused of, and imprisoned for being a clone of an infamous insurrectionist, a young former crewman of a space freighter must navigate a web of political intrigue, shifting alliances, and moral ambiguity. Following a daring prison break aided by the diverse crew of outlaws on another freighter he struggles to unravel the truth, confront past betrayals and seek justice against conspirators while his own identity hangs in the balance.

November 27, 2023
A young conscript wants to return to his ordinary life, but his newfound ability to perceive changes in the timeline caused by time traveling rebels he is put on the front line. He must use his ability to stop the attacks before they rip the space time continuum to shreds and destroy the world.

September 25, 2021
A mild mannered insurance salesman living in the universe where all action movies takes place gets tired of action heros always crashing everything and wants to make them answer for their latest transgression, without being drawn into the action himself.

October 17, 2020
A na?ve teenager takes a job as an interstellar mailman, to move to a paradise planet. On the job, he gets chased by foreign agents and assassins and discovers his paradise isn’t as good as it sounds

September 27, 2019
A crusty veteran of an interstellar war just wants to spend his retirement in peace. A notorious space pirate accuses him of stealing an alien artifact. He?s got 72 hours to turn it over, or he?ll kill the grandson he never knew he had.

June 8, 2019
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A space marine on shore leave must race to rescue a scientist from enemy insurgents, or the scientist’s death or abduction could set off a doomsday weapon, killing billions.

October 7, 2018
After a happy-go-lucky Marine survives an assassination attempt, he goes after the man behind it, a rogue officer, and stop him from selling WMDs to the government of an enemy planet.

September 24, 2017
A cloned Marine persuades his superiors to send him and two others on a covert mission to an enemy planet, to prevent a rogue officer from starting an interstellar war.

September 18, 2017
A cloned Marine on shore leave is abducted by a spy who manipulates him into joining him on a covert operation on an enemy planet, to stop a rogue officer from starting an interstellar war.

September 14, 2017
A young Marine on weekend leave is abducted by an unreliable spy who recruits him to extract a suspected defector from an enemy planet before interstellar war breaks out.

September 11, 2017
After a ship is shot down on a remote desert planet, the surviving Marine’s only hope of survival, and getting off the planet, is in a nearby mining town which is being torn apart by two feuding gangs.

September 11, 2016
After his ship crashes on a remote planet, the surviving Marine tries to get back to the front but finds himself in a mining town ruled by two rival gangs. He must stop the gangs fighting to get out of there alive.

September 9, 2016
A reclusive ornithologist finds his life turned upside down when everybody mistakes him for his namesake famous secret agent. He must escape dangerous people and evil henchmen to stop the villain before his plan destroys the habitat of an extremely rare bird.

October 23, 2015
An aspiring cat burglar is trying to pass his masters exam, but mistakenly breaks into the home of a rich, but crazy cat lady. Instead of getting out with loot it’s a battle of wits in order to get out alive and with all the limbs he had when he entered.

September 25, 2015
A retired homicide detective must figure out why everybody below the age of 65 have died at their computers, which are all running a pointless game where avatars are stalked and killed by a monster. To make matters worse there’s nobody left to run the nursing home, food is running out, and Mrs Everett needs to go to the bathroom.

July 19, 2015
A newly wed gay couple wants nothing more than live a normal life in the gated community they've moved into, but their arrival leads to civil strife as the sexually repressed conservative leader of the homeowners association will stop at nothing to drive them out.

October 24, 2013
An inhibited accountant who detest musicals struggles to remain sane when he wakes up in a world where everybody sing and dance.

September 23, 2013
An unimaginative accountant who hates musicals is transported to an alternate universe where everybody sing and dance. He struggles to return to his own universe before he succumbs to the compulsion of joining in.

September 12, 2013
An insecure motivational speaker must walk a narrow line when he and his girlfriend are kidnapped by an inept super villain and forced to help conceive a plot that will guarantee him a seat on the council of super villains.

March 27, 2013

Recent reviews

on After becoming the sole survivor of his adventuring party a barbarian now protects the town’s children by slaying the monsters under their beds. But when a rise in monster attacks threatens everyone, he must overcome his survivor’s guilt and PTSD to save the town.

Most of the kids have parents. However, two of them would become orphans early on because the monsters kill their parents. Just so those two end up helping the Barbarian. Also, I intend to write it primarily as a novel.…
on After becoming the sole survivor of his adventuring party a barbarian now protects the town’s children by slaying the monsters under their beds. But when a rise in monster attacks threatens everyone, he must overcome his survivor’s guilt and PTSD to save the town.

The idea is that the PTSD comes from seeing his friends in the adventuring party die, so it is the same reason he has survivor's guilt. I guess it's not as apparent as I thought it was. Thank you for…
on When a 10-year-old adventurer found an old journal that can lead to his great-great grandfather’s long lost treasure, he and he friends must go into a cave to find it and save their home from being sold into auction.

Sounds a lot like The Goonies, except it's a map they find in that movie. Is this an example logline for The Goonies?
on When his one-night stand turns out to be a dangerous psycho, a family man must fight in order to save the ones he loves..

Is this for something you're working on? It's just that it sounds that could just as easily be for "Fatal Attraction."
on A mild mannered insurance salesman living in the universe where all action movies takes place gets tired of action heros always crashing everything and wants to make them answer for their latest transgression, without being drawn into the action himself.

Thanks for the suggestion of a profession. That makes more sense. I think I'll make it personal for him. Like I mentioned, the inciting incident would be that some kind of big event, like a wedding, that the main character…
on A mild mannered insurance salesman living in the universe where all action movies takes place gets tired of action heros always crashing everything and wants to make them answer for their latest transgression, without being drawn into the action himself.

Good point. I hadn't thought of that. Actually, it's not important for the story that he has that profession. I'm considering the inciting incident that the protagonist is at some life event, like a wedding. It's interrupted by yet another…
on A researcher hired by NASA to find a wormhole during an alien invasion.

Isn't it a little superfluous to say from outer space? Where else would an alien invasion come from? And why does he only have seven days to do it if he has a time machine? Or is there some limitation…
on Three interwined stories between a group of astronauts in space finding them race against time to find their way home to Earth.

This logline is a bit vague. Even if there's a group of characters there should be someone who's the main protagonist, and with astronauts, there'd be a chain of command. Someone should drive the plot forward more than the others,…
on As a joke a lonely programmer creates an AI girlfriend that works with VR sunglasses, but his life becomes serious as he tries to hide his growing affection for his digital companion from his worried friends and family

Sorry if this is a little nitpicky and not affects the story or logline that much, but from what you're describing, it sounds like it's AR (Augmented Reality) rather than VR.
on A computer hacker uses a computer that turns back time so that he stop a young woman turned cyborg from invading his town.

And... then what happens? You're describing a situation, and that's not really a logline. Give the hacker a tangible goal and a ticking clock, plus what happens if he fails.
on An alter consciously riddled coma patient continues the struggle for his life and identity when he startles into traumatic recovery in search of a mysterious girl with an image ★ Accepted

I get the impression that Dbdb4 has written the logline in a different language, and run it through Google Translate, or some other translation software, but not bothered to find out if the translated version makes sense.
on A na?ve teenager takes a job as an interstellar mailman, to move to a paradise planet. On the job, he gets chased by foreign agents and assassins and discovers his paradise isn’t as good as it sounds

Thank you. My idea was that it was partly his naivety that made him think being a mailman would get him what he wanted and that it was a method nobody else had tried. Your version of the logline captures…
on A crusty veteran of an interstellar war just wants to spend his retirement in peace. A notorious space pirate accuses him of stealing an alien artifact. He?s got 72 hours to turn it over, or he?ll kill the grandson he never knew he had.

Good point about most people wanting peace. I suppose it would be more accurate to say that he's a loner and wants to keep to himself. I've just started brainstorming this idea, and haven't nailed down all the details, yet.…
on When a terrifying drug lord requires surgery after an assassination attempt, an infiltration specialist must terminate him, posing as a surgeon inside his fortified mansion, before he brings Venezuela into civil war.

It sort of sounds like something they would do as a plot on an episode of the classic "Mission: Impossible" series in the late 60s and early 70s. Of course, then it'd be a team effort, where they'd do a…
on After he’s fired for accidentally killing a noble hero, and thus taking away honor from his evil warlord boss, a disgraced henchman is forced to become the champion of a local village in order to overthrow the tyranny of his former master.?

I don't know in what time and place this is set, but it sort of gives me a vibe of classical Westerns, like A Fistful of Dollars, and the Magnificent Seven?(Both of which?were based on Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies, though.)
on A space marine on shore leave must race to rescue a scientist from enemy insurgents, or the scientist’s death or abduction could set off a doomsday weapon, killing billions.

Thank you. They use word count on the site. During November you input how many words you've written so far, and you get to see your progress graphically. I don't remember exactly, but they recommend you write 1667 words per…
on A space marine on shore leave must race to rescue a scientist from enemy insurgents, or the scientist’s death or abduction could set off a doomsday weapon, killing billions.

I've made several attempts at a logline for this novel before I posted this one, but they all ended up too long, so I didn't post them. In those attempts, I kept trying to include the marine's reason for coming…
on Upon being marked by a shadow creature with a hunger for humans, a duplicitous man is exiled from his hometown and forced to confront his identity or face losing himself.

Confronting one's identity and risk losing oneself, doesn't sound like something that can be filmed by a camera. Film is a visual medium so,? which makes internal struggles difficult to capture. Also, by the sound of things, being marked by…
on After building a machine that can see the future, a young inventor and his friend use it to get rich, only to run afoul of gangsters.

So, they use the machine to see into the future, on how to get rich? They use what they've learned to get the money, in the manner that they've seen, and that is a dishonest way, like theft or fraud,…
on A man having an affair with a married woman discovers his wife is having an affair with her husband.

Made me think of the stage play "The Virtuous Burglar" by Dario Fo. It has similar plot points, so you might want to check it out.