RE: Book review: Odd Thomas, by Dean Koontz
Well, who knows... we sit on our little blue planet, not knowing a thing of whats going on in our galaxy really. May be it needs to be rescued once a week - only by some other hero race. It can make you hope that they dont watch our TV... I can vividly imagine what they would say to something like Star Trek: "Look at those primitive monkeys! They can't even protect their own planet, but think they can save the galaxy or even the universe."
But to be fair to Star Trek, its not always such huge threats they are dealing with. All this trouble with the Romulans and Klingons reminds more of the cold war period, or the North Koreans.
And as I said before, in some episodes it seems the Enterprise is something like a interstellar automobile club - if your ship breaks down somewhere, just call and they come and fix it, or tow you to the next star base. :)
Well, I didn`t watch any of the new ST show yet. Frankly I'm a bit scared. All the later (post Voyager) stuff was just not really Star Trek anymore. Like ST Enterprise, or the movies. Starfleet officers with baseball caps? Really? Its always like that, when they try to make something better that is already perfect. Happened to Stargate as well.
I checked on Fargo, but they still want money for that on Amazon Prime Video. I give them some time to reconcider. :)
Yeah, crime scene cleaner is certainly not a job like any other. I wonder what the pay is for doing that...
Yeah, if the world needed saving once a week before humans developed warp drive--who saved it?
It reminds me of the way the two major comic book companies handled the concept. Usually with DC, Earth was just a small, unimportant planet in the whole galactic society. Marvel tended to treat it more like Earth being the most important place there was, or at least the people from it were. But as long as the story writers are Earthlings, people from Earth will tend to be the center of the story. I'm struggling with how to handle that in my own space fiction story.
Well, I have read SF novels which had no humans in them. Ages ago, so I cannot remember the titles. One was a fascinating story around a species that had 3 genders - which, as you can perhaps guess, really doesn't make things easier. Another one was about a heavy planet, a planet with high gravitation. All the lifeforms there were built accordingly, very compact, solid and strong. And they were always terribly afraid to fall down from somewhere, even if it was only 2 ft deep, because that would kill them instantly.
I think its a nice way to come up with something really new - but that doesn't mean its easy to do. But it leaves more room for the imagination, and has not been done so often before.
The first story was by Isaac Asimov. Someone pointed out that he never had any sex in his stories, so he invented a 3 gender world! the second I've heard of, but i don't recall who wrote it. There's always a new way to approach an old idea!