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Each Tuesday, rather than a POSSIBLY
IRRITATING ESSAY, I'd like to both challenge you and lend a helping hand. I
generate more speculative and teen story ideas than I can ever use. My family
rolls its collective eyes when I say, "Hang on a second! I just have to
write down this idea..." Here, I'll include the initial inspiration
(quote, website, podcast, etc) and then a thought or two that came to mind.
These will simply be seeds -- plant, nurture, fertilize, chemically treat,
irradiate, test or stress them as you see fit. I only ask if you let me know if
anything comes of them.
SF Trope: god-like
aliens
Current Event: http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Gods-Calendar-Return-Extraterrestrials/dp/1601631413/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323863963&sr=1-1
This is SUCH an
old idea; tired; worn out…I read CHARIOTS OF THE GODS when I was like,
thirteen. It was lame then and the books since then are STILL lame, as is his
website and his continued insistence that the rest of the scientific world is
crazy and he’s right – that aliens came down from space to form our total
mythology – from the Greek pantheon to the Mayan gods poised to return to Earth
in December of 2012. He also has a theme park and is planning a media
extravaganza (http://www.daniken.com/e/chariots_project.shtml)
– sounds to me just like any other property developer: out to get rich!
I’d like to try
something different.
Besides the possibility
of One God, the broadcasts of van Daniken’s book in the form of his movie of
the same name, have been floating into space since 1974.
No doubt the
“alien gods” have seen it.
I notice they
haven’t been around to reclaim their godhood lately.
But what if they
did come back? What if they are here? Now?
Fifteen-year-old
Tommy Servant has been into his mom’s old books. After reading the relatively
new TWILIGHT OF THE GODS on his friend’s NOOK, he’s been reading one of the
writer’s books a week.
In the heat of the
summer, he’s camping in a nearby state park and he’s out laying on a stone
outcrop over a shallow valley, watching the Milky Way wheeling overhead.
Something descends from the sky and moves directly toward him. Shortly, there’s
a small spacecraft hovering directly in front of him. A ramp extends from a
door that opens. All he can see inside are a few banks of lights and a
rectangle of darkness.
The invitation is
obvious but…crap! What should he do? Then a voice speaks – it’s female and surprisingly
sounds a lot like Mom’s voice.
It says, “Tommy,
what you see before you is a ship that carries a gateway to our world. We are
not gods and even though our ancestors sometimes visited Earth, we didn’t make
your pyramids or your Easter Island heads or anything else like that. We want
you to set your world straight about what we DID do here: we explored. That’s
it. Your own people created the Nazca lines as well as created calendars. We
may not be gods, but we’d like you to be our prophet. Because some of us are
coming to Earth; but not all of us are benevolent…”
YOU take if from
here!
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