Hi girls (and boys too): I've just moved into the neighbourhood and have posted my first story. I was so pleased to get some positive feedback because, as a newly transitioning TS, it's all very exciting but bewildering.
Anyway, I notice there's lots of sci-fi writing going on and I thought I'd offer my two cents' worth.
Good science fiction is extremely complex. It is a real minefield for young writers. Unless you have the plot hammered down tight, it will go off the rails very quickly. And that can be very frustrating. I was just offering my advice to a nice person (BarbieLee) about her story as she seemed to have got into that very same muddle.
I assume you scifi buffs read lots of science fiction. Have you tried Philip K. Dick - he is considered one of the greatest scifi writers ever. His stuff is wildly inventive, has straightforward plotlines, has brilliantly evocative writing and very accessible for sci-fi fans. My favourite is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The film Blade Runner is based on it. Lots of his books have been made into films - look them up in IMDB.
As I said, good scifi is complex and when you add TG themes to it, it probably turns into a cosmic cat's cradle.
I have discovered - and I'm a 40-year veteran journalist - the solution to all fiction writing problems can be found in books and movies.
I have a few ideas about how you could combine TG with sci-fi and I'm happy to share them with you. Someone might like to have a crack at this one.
Cryonic suspension is an interesting idea. I once thought of writing a story about how a sad TG boy dies and his parents put him into cryonic suspension. Eventually the whole family dies and they remain in cold storage for several centuries. Suddenly, because of scientific breakthroughs, such as nanotechnology, they all wake up together. The boys' parents and siblings have all been rebuilt and are all beautiful and new and he has been recreated as a real girl and they live happily ever after.
It's pretty far out, I realise, but it's based on The First Immortal, by James L. Halperin (also a brilliant science fantasist). Other resources are The Prospect of Immortality by Robert Ettinger and the Alcor web site. I plan to have my head stored there when I die. Hope you do too.
Have fun writing, Little Miss Sunshine