Question: Planning on writing a picture sci-fi book about Utopia.
The book will not have a plot (story), sequence or any conclusion. It will have approximately 30 illustrations generally depicting a search for Utopia, accompanied by minimal text for each illustration. Similar to a photo book.
Has anything similar to this been published before?
Could this spur sufficient interest?

Answer: 
*The Room* is about a man whose love life runs off the rails and ends in a brutal break-up. This is a topic that a *lot* of people are interested in. *La La Land* is about the same theme. *Shrek* seems like that's how it's going to end leading into the final act. I can't begin to list how many breakup songs have hit the top 10 charts.

The reason people don't like *The Room* isn't because the premise of the story is bad. It's because the movie was poorly executed. Honestly, you can probably make a story about any premise you want to. Would you be interested in reading a book about someone learning how to work at a post office? Apparently a lot of people would, because Terry Prachet's novel *Going Postal* is held in high regard. Would you read a book about a bunch of rich, stupid twenty-somethings going to Spain and getting drunk all the time? That's the plot to *The Sun Also Rises*, a cultural touchstone written by Ernest Hemingway. Heck, you can describe *The Room* as being about a spoiled rich guy who has awful relationships and then dies, and that's also the synopsis of *The Great Gatsby*.

Don't worry too much about whether your premise is workable. I contend you can make a good story out of literally any premise. What determines whether people will read your story or not is how well you've executed on your idea. So practice writing a lot, make multiple editing passes on your story, join a writing group, ask friends who can give honest critiques to read your work - do whatever it takes to be certain that your writing is solid, and your story will come alive.
**You really don't know.**

But here's the thing. There are 7.5 billion people on the planet. Let's say that you want to sell 100,000 copies. 

That means you only need to be interesting to 1/75000 people. 

Your story interests **you**. Are you so special that you find something interesting that 75000 other people **don't**? Maybe. Who knows. 

Just write the thing. You have so much ahead of you in that process... and it will so look different at the end from where it's at anyway. Just write it. Don't let fear that 'people won't like it' stand in your way.