Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> I've got an idea for a novel which involves a group of kids taking on or
> thwarting an oppressive alien civilization. Problem is, for my plot to make
> sense, the aliens have been killing a bunch of them before they figure out
> they are even oppressed by aliens and then continue to do so as they figure
> out how to fight back. I want the kids to be heroes and show how they
> figure out the problem and fight back, from their eyes.   For the story to
> make any sense, it's better for them to be under voting age.  The older
> they are, the plot doesn't make sense.  The younger they are, I imagine
> you're more at risk of either violating PC sensibilities or actually
> scaring people.
My first reaction was: 'huh, we are talking about fiction'. Judging from 
the other reactions you are apparently correct in assuming this may be a 
problem. So I am not fully in touch with current PC.
Another reaction is: Have you read the latest Harry Potter? Kids as 
heroes and under voting age deaths, (though possibly not named ones, I 
do not remember the details).
Yet another: don't advertise it as a book for children.

> 
> Can you show 10-year olds in a sort of "The Poseidon Adventure" epic where
> not all the ones you introduce the reader to survive by the end?
> 

As is probably evident from the above: I would have absolutely no 
problems with it.

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