I love writing futuristic and paranormal stories. It’s so great to discover/make up new worlds, rules and cultures. But, with recent futuristic type movie trailors going around, I started thinking about those tried and true furturistics we know and love/or, if you’re not like me…hate.
Who can forget Aliens when talking about futuristics? Come on, admit it. When the movie came out it scared you. I know it did me. Alien babies popping up through the stomach? *shivers* And the android bleeding milky liquid? Ew and yet fascinating. Now, it’s kind of funny since I’m jaded to the special effects, but when I was “littler” it was pretty creepy.
More recently, the series Firefly and adjoining movie, Serenity, had an outlaw cowboy take on the future. With their shiny lingo and unforgettable characters, I was instantly draw into their naturalistic world. Whereas aliens was high tech, this play down mix of spaceships and cowboys served as an odd genre mix that really worked. There were no real alien species, only mutated (or should I say, mutilated) human ones.
So, which take on the future do you like best? High tech space or natural shoot em up cowboys? Which future would you like to live in (fighting aliens would be up to you, lol)? Which were scarier reapers or aliens? What do you think the future will really hold?
Oh, and if you’re wondering how these bookcovers play into the topic — I just got them and wanted to show them off!! Mandy Roth did them for me and the books are now available here (a re-issue of my Dragon Lords futuristic series).
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October 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 am
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the aliens movies. They’re up there in my top fave movies of all time.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 am
Firefly > Alien anyday. Reavers are definitely scarier than aliens. Any aliens. I mean…they don’t just kill you, they rape you to death, eat you and wear your skin. Hopefully in that order. Even Jayne is terrified of them and Jayne’s got Vera.
Yeah, I’m a Firfly fangirl. I always thought one of the saddest things about it being cancelled was the fact that Joss never got to really explore and play with the idea of “Hey, guess what, there aren’t any aliens. It really is just us.” It’s such an unheard of thing in space movies, there’s *always* other species. But in Firefly there weren’t any, just humans, and I would have adored seeing that play out. It was such a fresh idea that got cut off too soon.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Loved Aliens and loved Firefly! So disappointed that they canceled it. Loved the Serenity movie, too.
Denise A. Agnew