An alien visitation fiction...

[Turanil]

PLEASE! This thread has nothing to do with sexual identities and what not!! Please don't make this thread be closed for stuff totally unrelated to the original post.

Thanks.

Good Stuff Turanil. I look forward to purchasing the novel or if you decide to make it an anthology, all the books when they hit the newstand!

Thanks! In fact I fancy myself of becoming a sci-fi author someday. Except my ideas aren't about the Xharl'dh, but about what the future of mankind could be in 2100-2200. My idea is that mankind creates gods in the form of sentient AI. All those gods war against each others to have more and more "followers": humans plugged into the Matrix while living in the normal world at the same time. A life where the distinction between reality and virtual is blurred...

 

[Torm]

PLEASE! This thread has nothing to do with sexual identities and what not!! Please don't make this thread be closed for stuff totally unrelated to the original post.

I think it tilted that way because of the overflow of feelings from the cross-gender threads. Kemrain had a question, and I answered. I don't like secrets, and I may embarass people sometimes with my honesty, but people need to live in the truth - even if it is uncomfortable.

We'll discuss further off the board, though, if there is anything else. I don't want to see this thread closed either.

Speaking of the topic , my son is playing the Transformers Playstation game in the room with me, and it made me think of how Teletran One didn't recognise humans as life, and reformed the Transformers as vehicles and equipment so they could "blend in with the natives." Sort of goes to the category 'D' I outlined above - at least until the smarter robot intelligences realized the mistake.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Thanks! In fact I fancy myself of becoming a sci-fi author someday. Except my ideas aren't about the Xharl'dh, but about what the future of mankind could be in 2100-2200. My idea is that mankind creates gods in the form of sentient AI. All those gods war against each others to have more and more "followers": humans plugged into the Matrix while living in the normal world at the same time. A life where the distinction between reality and virtual is blurred...

Hopefully you'll get your stuff published.... I don't know how easy or hard it is to get fiction published in Europe but it's hard as heck to get it published here in the States. Sounds interesting, though. Although it sounds like what some call "heavy SF" with major emphasis on technological aspects than the human ones.... (at least that's what I'm guessing from this snippet).

 

[Kemrain]

I've always had an irrational fear of aliens. Shows like the X Files really creep me out (as they're supposed to). If life was discovered elsewhere, I'd be thrilled. Unless it was intelligent life, and then I'd be thrilled and terrified. Therrifield? I dunno. The idea of beings out there with no understanding of human empathy is awfully creepy. For me, much of my ideas of extraterrestrials comes from the horror genre, not the scifi genre. Not that I don't love it, it's just.. Scary.

This view is interesting, because it really helps formulate my ideas of scifi. It's a different background than many scifi fans. I'm the one who assumes it's only a amtter of time before the aliens try to eat us, the robots rise up against their human oppressors, or we create a monster that we can't destroy before it destroys us. Wow, I have a dark view of scifi. Cool.

Torm, I tried emailing twice, and it bounced both times. Any idea as to why this might be? Have another address for me to try? If you'd like, you can reach me at my EN World username @sq7.org.

- Kemrain the Scared of the Alien.

 

[Torm]

Torm, I tried emailing twice, and it bounced both times. Any idea as to why this might be? Have another address for me to try? If you'd like, you can reach me at my EN World username @sq7.org.

Just sent a test e-mail to that address. Hopefully you can write back. If that bounces, or you don't get it, I also use surakofvulcan@hotmail.com.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I've always had an irrational fear of aliens. Shows like the X Files really creep me out (as they're supposed to). If life was discovered elsewhere, I'd be thrilled. Unless it was intelligent life, and then I'd be thrilled and terrified. Therrifield? I dunno. The idea of beings out there with no understanding of human empathy is awfully creepy. For me, much of my ideas of extraterrestrials comes from the horror genre, not the scifi genre. Not that I don't love it, it's just.. Scary.

This view is interesting, because it really helps formulate my ideas of scifi. It's a different background than many scifi fans. I'm the one who assumes it's only a amtter of time before the aliens try to eat us, the robots rise up against their human oppressors, or we create a monster that we can't destroy before it destroys us. Wow, I have a dark view of scifi. Cool.

Torm, I tried emailing twice, and it bounced both times. Any idea as to why this might be? Have another address for me to try? If you'd like, you can reach me at my EN World username @sq7.org.

- Kemrain the Scared of the Alien.

Maybe because you've seen Alien too many times...... I saw it and wasn't too thrilled with it to see it again or the sequels.

The rest are bound to occur in real life if things keep going as they are....

And Torm's email addy works fine for me..... I've not had any problems with it.

The only email addy I had problems with was someone's yahoo addy. It ended up being him emailing me so I could send him a file he wanted. Stupid yahoo.

 

[Turanil]

Hopefully you'll get your stuff published.... I don't know how easy or hard it is to get fiction published in Europe but it's hard as heck to get it published here in the States.

What a bad new. My intent was to write directly in English, to try being published in the US (how pretentious I am... ). The reason is that it is impossible to get success with the sci-fi/fantasy genre in europe. Here people think it is junk literacy only good for teenagers who have yet to grow up. One must understand that Tolkien or Frank Herbert (or even Stephen King) would never have had any success if they had first tried to be published in France.

 

[Kemrain]

Just sent a test e-mail to that address. Hopefully you can write back. If that bounces, or you don't get it, I also use surakofvulcan@hotmail.com.

Unfortunately, I'm recieving you loud and clear, but your server is bouncing back my messages after recieving them. Do you have some sort of filter on? Do you have it out for Verizon? Do you hate me?! Hehehehe..

Maybe because you've seen Alien too many times...... I saw it and wasn't too thrilled with it to see it again or the sequels.

The rest are bound to occur in real life if things keep going as they are....

I hadn't seen Alien until I was in my Junior year in highschool. Which was only 5 year..s a..go.. Damn, now I feel old... I see your point, but, I'm not exactly sure where I got these ideas. And "Alien" was such a funny movie. I laughed and laughed. I wasn't in a scared mood, I guess.

- Kemrain the "Who's Afraid of the Xenomorph?"

 

[Darth K'Trava]

What a bad new. My intent was to write directly in English, to try being published in the US (how pretentious I am... ). The reason is that it is impossible to get success with the sci-fi/fantasy genre in europe. Here people think it is junk literacy only good for teenagers who have yet to grow up. One must understand that Tolkien or Frank Herbert (or even Stephen King) would never have had any success if they had first tried to be published in France.

You could try to submit to Asimov's SF magazine. I don't know anything about their requirements but they, presumably, take submissions. The mag is for short stories, mainly. I think several big authors got started by submitting there...

That was the view the US public had many, many years ago. That it was cheap fiction, probably less viewed favorably than Harlequin romances. :\ Goes to show sex sells but not stuff about the future.....

 

[Turanil]

That it was cheap fiction, probably less viewed favorably than Harlequin romances. :\ Goes to show sex sells but not stuff about the future.....

My opinion is that all the bad press put on sci-fi literacy was by people who actually did read Harlequin romances.