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| My Planned Novel; my take on alien transplantation | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 28 2011, 01:43 AM (1,325 Views) | |
| Canis Lupis | Feb 28 2011, 01:43 AM Post #1 |
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So a lot of you expressed interest in this plot when I brought it up on Yorick's topic "Would you see this movie?" First of all, specifically, what's good about it? Second of all, specifically, what's bad about it? Third of all, how can I make an alien that could pass itself off as a Human without making it humanesque? |
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| dialforthedevil | Feb 28 2011, 01:46 PM Post #2 |
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I like it, its familiar but not cliche and also displays a deeper level of thinking. Just be careful you dont make this class war to political otherwise you could end up receiving quite a backlash. Perhaps make the alien quite beastly? Make it look slightly bovine. Maybe the minotaur was an imprisoned Servain. With this bovine idea it could also be a little nod to beauty and the beast? |
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| Canis Lupis | Feb 28 2011, 03:22 PM Post #3 |
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Perhaps. I was thinking of making the poorer Servain look a little biologically different than the richer Servain, mostly due to breeding within the same social class. Heck, I was imagining something akin to a gorilla whose legs are just as strong as the arms. No hair, just rough skin (almost like shark scales). Their eyes would probably be a tad bigger, perhaps a remnant of a possible nocturnal ancestor. I imagine their mouth would be just below the eyes and quite large, perhaps with a long tongue. As I imagined it, their would be no neck and the head would be merged into the body somewhat. Oh yeah, unless I want to get some sort of message across, I'll try to keep the politics within a certain limit. |
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| dialforthedevil | Feb 28 2011, 03:31 PM Post #4 |
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Okay that sounds cool. Make them look sorta regal though. Perhaps the upper class have long neck and a crown like skull while serfs have flat skull and no neck? |
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| Canis Lupis | Feb 28 2011, 03:35 PM Post #5 |
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Well, they'd be descended from the same stock of animals. But beauty to the Servain would be a different concept than beauty for us. Having a neck is seen as some sort of bulbous growth, almost like a tumor. So the rich would probably go for no neck. |
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| dialforthedevil | Feb 28 2011, 03:37 PM Post #6 |
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Ah but the readers would not recognise that as such... |
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| Canis Lupis | Feb 28 2011, 03:46 PM Post #7 |
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Eh, quite true. |
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| lamna | Feb 28 2011, 04:00 PM Post #8 |
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Or just make the nobles, taller and healthier looking. Maybe a little fatter too. Sounds like an interesting story to me. |
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| Canis Lupis | Feb 28 2011, 04:05 PM Post #9 |
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Yeah, that's what I was planning on. Paler, fatter, and just generally healthier. And thanks lamna. |
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| dialforthedevil | Feb 28 2011, 04:11 PM Post #10 |
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Actually that does sound more logical i really want to read this
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| lamna | Feb 28 2011, 05:52 PM Post #11 |
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They kind of remind me of the old People's Republic of Haven, first the Legislaturalists ruling it as a welfare state aristocracy in all but name, then the revolution by the Committee of Public Safety and the dictators Rob S. Pierre and Oscar Saint-Just, finally replaced by free Republic of Haven lead by Eloise Pritchart. |
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| Jasonguppy | Feb 28 2011, 06:03 PM Post #12 |
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Very interesting. I might read it just for . I like the plot, but it is slightly cliche. But im fine w/ cliche. |
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| Canis Lupis | Feb 28 2011, 09:27 PM Post #13 |
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May I ask what's cliche about it? Well-used cliche, I'm fine with. But other cliche, I want to eliminate. |
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| Holben | Mar 1 2011, 03:40 PM Post #14 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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Cliche vs. trope... I like this idea. But why no necks? Surely, they want to be able to move their facial organs relative to their body? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| SIngemeister | Mar 1 2011, 04:32 PM Post #15 |
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Hive Tyrant of the Essee Swarm
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I have trouble with this bit, I must admit. I presume the general will at least have trained his chosen followers in combat. Do you really expect a group of blue-collar workers to stand up to them? |
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i really want to read this




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