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RE: Book review: Odd Thomas, by Dean Koontz
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!