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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 8, 2020 18:56:50 GMT
If it happened, it would resemble the "love scene" from "Galaxy Quest".
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Post by ronmiller on Apr 8, 2020 18:57:19 GMT
Edd's aliens are very different from humans. No chance of a science fiction love story between a human and any of Edd Cartier's aliens. I dunno. There are some pretty weird people out there...
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 8, 2020 19:26:22 GMT
Edd's aliens are very different from humans. No chance of a science fiction love story between a human and any of Edd Cartier's aliens. I dunno. There are some pretty weird people out there... Yeah, there are. Wait till about the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YglIokqAfY
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Post by ronmiller on Apr 8, 2020 19:37:35 GMT
One of my favorite movies EVER!
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 8, 2020 19:43:49 GMT
One of my favorite movies EVER! Me after working to describe "Bats of Prey".
Glad there wasn't much of an EMP today.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2020 4:51:54 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YglIokqAfY" Galaxy Quest is original, entertaining and very funny. The premise alone is enough to entice you. But it's more than a one-joke movie. Embracing three realities – the world of the actors, the aliens and that of the TV series' fans – this sci-fi action comedy is a parody, a spoof and a warm-hearted comedy to boot." (urban cine file)
"Comedies are usually pretty tricky for me. Either I'm laughing my head off and nobody else gets it, or everybody else is laughing and I'm looking for the nearest exit. But Galaxy Quest had everyone in the theater laughing, including my companion--who hates science fiction. It cut across ages and backgrounds with a very simple premise--you are what you believe yourself to be."(IMDb)Hmmm sounds like an interesting film maybe I'll take a look at it.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Apr 9, 2020 12:10:57 GMT
All I can say is Zoe looks great in green.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 9, 2020 13:11:26 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YglIokqAfY" Galaxy Quest is original, entertaining and very funny. The premise alone is enough to entice you. But it's more than a one-joke movie. Embracing three realities – the world of the actors, the aliens and that of the TV series' fans – this sci-fi action comedy is a parody, a spoof and a warm-hearted comedy to boot." (urban cine file)
"Comedies are usually pretty tricky for me. Either I'm laughing my head off and nobody else gets it, or everybody else is laughing and I'm looking for the nearest exit. But Galaxy Quest had everyone in the theater laughing, including my companion--who hates science fiction. It cut across ages and backgrounds with a very simple premise--you are what you believe yourself to be."(IMDb)Hmmm sounds like an interesting film maybe I'll take a look at it. We shape our realities by the will we have to make it so.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 9, 2020 14:25:14 GMT
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The long and short of building a world and coming up with characters or the creatures as accompany them can be a bit like Dracula in the above clip.
You start out full of energy but after doing the research and adjusting a living species with an extinct one and extrapolating within reason in order to have something believable, you wind up feeling a bit like Renfield in the cobwebs the next day when you realize you have to rinse and repeat the process.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 10, 2020 22:24:29 GMT
The novel I've been working on has been on hiatus for five days due to: 1] normal daily tasks, 2] research on various life forms, and 3] coming up with plausible details for creatures that are just a bit different from what is known. Three species described, one possibly two to go [tomorrow] as time allows.
The details [and the work that go into them] are important because an author who does an inline description in one place and a very different description later will hear about it. The descriptions or notes are not only handy to help an author keep things from movement and motivations straight, they can also help the reader get a far better visual [as part of appendices] than just hearing "It was a weird looking critter and it stunk to high heaven". If the writer doesn't let the reader know why the creature looked weird or stank, then expect a less than satisfied reader.
How far an author wants to get into the minutiae is up to the individual writer, but with details at the very minimum the reader's imagination should be engaged enough to visualize what the author had in mind.
On that happy note I need to finish a load of laundry, shove an unpalatable frozen dinner in the oven [since I can no longer find half the ingredients I need to actually cook a palatable meal], and there are Their Graces who eventually need to go to bed so Milady and I can share fifteen minutes of silence together. Have a good evening, y'all.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 11, 2020 15:32:42 GMT
The spouse just read my description of a decidedly non-human intelligent species and her first reaction was: "Those things are disgusting, I'd like to wipe out the entire species if it actually existed."
When she found out it was capable of space flight, she wasn't much happier.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 11, 2020 17:02:47 GMT
Last two species [for now] described, so call it six days of research and head scratching in order to set up more of the story. The word count for all species so far described for the novel is 2,500, which is a decent start if the work in question runs to a good length [90K to 110K words]. Time for more laundry, ciao
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Add in a jet fighter plane.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 12, 2020 14:45:06 GMT
Per usual, doing research to set a scene can take longer than expected, hence the reference to a jet fighter in the preceding post. I foresaw a need for an interceptor capable of operating at Mach 3, and started delving into aircraft capable of operating at or near that speed [and yes there are currently aircraft I can use as for my basic concept].
Consider a speculative fiction book set in the far future, or an alternate history where evolution and / or technological developments followed a very different timeline, or a setting where the world is similar without being identical to our own. The science fiction [just like the fantasy] novel has to have a lot of internal consistency in order to help the reader suspend disbelief, even if the details vary. If the story is set in the far future, you can fudge some details as long as they don't grossly violate certain laws of physics. The same holds true for the alternate history story regardless of the timeline being radically different or fairly similar, as in it's more a matter of picking the variants, making them believable, and running with the plot.
When it comes to possible animals or intelligent species, it gets a bit fuzzier. Conditions early in Earth's history were conducive to life developing, but those conditions were no guarantee life would develop exactly as it did. As far as the fossil record goes, there are examples of some fairly bizarre creatures from the Ediacaran and Cambrian times [when compared to today's standard], yet what is known is a small fraction of what once existed. As a result if the alternate timeline an author creates has some creatures we'd find visually revolting if not mentally revolting, it doesn't mean such an outcome was never a possibility, all it means is the factors that would have led to us happened differently.
Research what you can, get creative, and see what you can come up with. Anyone who read the description of the species I wrote up yesterday wouldn't want to see it standing in their nightmares, much less eating.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 8:36:56 GMT
I think anyone who writes science fiction must have a sound knowledge of the state of the universe today and an understanding of the science behind the existance of a life form on a planet. Any creature that they create must bear out the science and be believable.
"An organism is shaped by the environment in which it dwells. Considering the rampant diversity of species on Earth, just imagine the oddities that could evolve on radically different sorts of planets — perhaps black-leafed “plants” that thrive in dim light or even creatures made of metal rather than carbon. In Imagined Life, physicist James Trefil and planetary scientist Michael Summers set out on a safari through the cosmos, conjuring up the menagerie that might inhabit some of the thousands of exoplanets discovered thus far. Many of the book’s chapters explore potential life on various types of worlds, each vastly unlike Earth. Though fanciful and fun, the pair’s efforts are grounded in science.(Imagined Life)
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 20, 2020 20:55:44 GMT
I think anyone who writes science fiction must have a sound knowledge of the state of the universe today and an understanding of the science behind the existance of a life form on a planet. Any creature that they create must bear out the science and be believable. "An organism is shaped by the environment in which it dwells. Considering the rampant diversity of species on Earth, just imagine the oddities that could evolve on radically different sorts of planets — perhaps black-leafed “plants” that thrive in dim light or even creatures made of metal rather than carbon. In Imagined Life, physicist James Trefil and planetary scientist Michael Summers set out on a safari through the cosmos, conjuring up the menagerie that might inhabit some of the thousands of exoplanets discovered thus far. Many of the book’s chapters explore potential life on various types of worlds, each vastly unlike Earth. Though fanciful and fun, the pair’s efforts are grounded in science.(Imagined Life)Lady Elizabeth,
When the article talks about years, it is years after the planet was formed.
Life, as humans know it, was more accident than inevitable.
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