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What would an alien think about the earth after reading your book?
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They would get back in their spaceship and go visit a planet with a healthier life.
They would put Earth under quarantine.
*My* alien would say, "Dude! The earthlings fight with swords and shields--and poison people with 'wavy-cap' mushrooms--Let's conquer them our las-guns." :-)
I would like to think they might give me a few hints as to where I went wrong about the exploits in space that I have in my novels. Of course they just might laugh their heads off, but then again what I speculated can't be too bad because at least they prove it is possible.
It may well depend whether they think that glow in the dark 100kg cats who like to sleep on the bed are a good idea.
Huh, that's a good question. I guess they would think that humans are expecting some really big changes in the coming years, and are interested in colonizing their Solar System. I can't imagine they would care much about this.
That we celebrate our own self-destructive natures.
So, would you suggest extraterrestrials to read your stuff?
Most of us would recommend lots of people here read our stuff :-) Extraterrestrials are less suitable because they wouldn't purchase copies :-(
If aliens were to read my work they would conclude that humans are greedy, selfish, and eager to sacrifice/hurt/defame/rob/kill others to get ahead. That said, if the aliens were to watch some of the current events taking place now they would undoubtedly conclude that we were much worse than that.
Ian wrote: "... Extraterrestrials are less suitable because they wouldn't purchase copies :-("You might be underestimating their buying potential :)
G.R. wrote: "If aliens were to read my work they would conclude that humans are greedy, selfish, and eager to sacrifice/hurt/defame/rob/kill others to get ahead. That said, if the aliens were to watch some of t..."Sounds like you write some gritty stuff. To make impressions we probably won't offer your books as the first choice to space travelers to arrive and sit quarantine for corona :)
Yes, well if any extraterrestrials out there are reading my books, feel free to tell me where I went wrong :-)
Nik wrote: "To make impressions we probably won't offer your books as the first choice to space travelers to arrive and sit quarantine for corona..."Unless they were equally greedy and self-serving. But you're right. We should probably have a stack of children's books like "Franklin Goes to School" and "Little Bear Makes a Friend" for just this sort of eventuality.
G.R. wrote: "....Franklin Goes to School" and "Little Bear Makes a Friend" for just this sort of eventuality."-:)
Haven't read them, but I suspect they may suggest we are an easy prey -:)
I don't know. He can count by twos AND tie his shoes! All at the age of 7. Of course, those are turtle years. Not sure what that would be in human years. Crap. You're right. The aliens are going to think we're idiots.
If aliens read my book that comes out next year, they'd know I was onto them.
The fact that an alien is reading one of the books suggests such a higher level of technical capability worrying about whether they would see us is prey is long past the point. (I reverse this in my Space Opera series) If they had the capability to visit, they are either benign, don't care, or planning something perhaps they have political non-interference policy until we reach a standard of civilisation suitable to be good neighbours. Another issue in my books and many others.
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardash... for one approach
Of course they might not exist but that's a whole other argument where human bias for we are special limits point of discussion. We treat our one home planet as if we are busy destroying it and wiping out the other species who are homed here
Philip wrote: "The fact that an alien is reading one of the books suggests such a higher level of technical capability worrying about whether they would see us is prey is long past the point. (I reverse this in m..."In one of my books I also have aliens know about us and are watching us benignly, in part to make sure we don't develop sufficiently to become a problem, and partly through the consequences of a devious trick by another lot of nearby aliens. There are all sorts of possibilities really.
In another series of mine, someone did something silly and aliens wiped out all humanity except for a small lot in an artificial satellite, and the only hope of recovery was to affect the past. Plenty of scope with aliens for different fictional scenarios. In reality????
I think they'd be wondering where the giant cats are if they'd read one of mine...
I'm wondering about that, and I'm not an alien (I swear :-)
Some of us invest a great effort into crafting a story and fill it with imaginary or realistic content, some others - write for fun unaware of possible ramifications...
What if unbeknownst to us aliens put their hands on our precious masterpiece? What would their impression about humankind, life, earth be?
Would they expect dragons and magic or maybe grim life like in Trainspotting or superheroes like Spider-/Batman-esque or how sentient and noble we are?
What do you think?