Aliens Are Fun!
No, unlike my father-in-law, I'm not talking about 'little green men'. The possibility of intelligent life in the universe is real but I have extreme doubts as to whether we'll encounter it anytime in the remote future. As to the question of whether we have already, well, conspiracy theories are not one of my interests.
I'm talking about using aliens in fiction, something I'm having fun with in my story. And I'm increasingly realizing that the alien race which is influencing me the most are the 'Ancients' or 'Lantians' from the Stargate TV shows. Almost identical to humans, they are mysterious, hyper-technological, and essentially a fallen society. Yet their ruins abound throughout the fictional Milky Way and Pegasus Galaxies.
I'm talking about using aliens in fiction, something I'm having fun with in my story. And I'm increasingly realizing that the alien race which is influencing me the most are the 'Ancients' or 'Lantians' from the Stargate TV shows. Almost identical to humans, they are mysterious, hyper-technological, and essentially a fallen society. Yet their ruins abound throughout the fictional Milky Way and Pegasus Galaxies.
My other car is an Aurora class battleship.
Not only have I found the 'Ancients' incredibly fascinating throughout watching both SG-1 and especially Atlantis (no, my wife and I haven't started watching Universe yet) but they're creeping into my own fiction. The 'aliens' in my book share the nearly identical human form and hyper-technology of the Ancients, and while they're not from a fallen civilization, they are exiles.
Still, because they work in the shadows, when human characters (usually Azriah) come across them, it's very frequently akin to uncovering a ruin. And, of course, the ruins aren't really that--they're fully-functional installations. I'm unsure exactly how much alien influence to put in the story--for sure I'm going to shy away from any sort of space war/space opera type of fiction--but I find it interesting how my stories keep going from urban fantasy settings to more a more sci-fi type of arena. Not that the two can't be combined, of course. . . .
The relationship between magic and science, after all, is normally a question of a difference in the amount of knowledge one's culture/civilization possesses. So, if a hyper-technological race imposes its will on a lesser one, could the results be called magic? These are the questions facing my main character and one of the central themes in the book.
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