We've reached the top moment of my August countdown of favorite alien-related moments in fiction, in celebration of the countdown to the release of Splinters, book 1 of The Prospero Chronicles!
(Click the links to read Favorite Fictional Alien-Related Moment #2, #3, #4 and #5, and check out Matt’s list on the same topic on his blog).
On these lists, you'll find a lot of sources of inspiration for The Prospero Chronicles, some major, some minor, and some other alien moments simply too cool or classic to pass up.
Splinters will be available September 23rd (my 25th birthday!), and you can already pre-order it...
(Click the links to read Favorite Fictional Alien-Related Moment #2, #3, #4 and #5, and check out Matt’s list on the same topic on his blog).
On these lists, you'll find a lot of sources of inspiration for The Prospero Chronicles, some major, some minor, and some other alien moments simply too cool or classic to pass up.
Splinters will be available September 23rd (my 25th birthday!), and you can already pre-order it...
The top moment on this list, from the '70s remake of the '50s adaptation of the '50 novel, The Body Snatchers, is short and sweet and demanding of one of these:
****Spoiler Alert****
Even if you haven't seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers, you probably know that it's about alien invaders who drain the life out of living things to make themselves into emotionless replicas of them (called "pod people" in the case of replaced humans).
The invasion starts small, with a few aliens passing for human, acting strangely but never giving the humans who suspect them an excuse to do anything.
****Spoiler Alert****
Even if you haven't seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers, you probably know that it's about alien invaders who drain the life out of living things to make themselves into emotionless replicas of them (called "pod people" in the case of replaced humans).
The invasion starts small, with a few aliens passing for human, acting strangely but never giving the humans who suspect them an excuse to do anything.
Then, slowly, the pod people start to outnumber the real people and become confident enough to start hunting them down, using unearthly, bloodcurdling screams to alert each other when they identify one.
The movie follows a small band of humans' quest for survival, their efforts to raise the alarm, figure out ways of killing the aliens, and hide from them, either out of sight or by concealing emotion to blend in.
The group is slowly whittled down, members becoming separated or assimilated, until our hero, Matthew (Donald Sutherland),
The movie follows a small band of humans' quest for survival, their efforts to raise the alarm, figure out ways of killing the aliens, and hide from them, either out of sight or by concealing emotion to blend in.
The group is slowly whittled down, members becoming separated or assimilated, until our hero, Matthew (Donald Sutherland),
Yes, President Snow minus thirty-five years.
…makes a lone, near-suicidal run through the greenhouses the pod people have set up for themselves, destroying as many of them as he can and narrowly escaping to an uncertain future.
Flash forward to an eerily orderly morning of pod people going about their business. Nancy, an earlier separated member of the group, spots Matthew walking across the courtyard to City Hall.
They weren't close before in any way except how fighting for their lives together made everyone close. But all their friends including their separate love interests are long dead, and any kind of human familiarity is too tempting to pass up.
She breaks pod person character and calls out to him.
He turns, appraises her a moment... and answers with one of those piercing screams, summoning the other pod people down on her.
The aliens win.
Flash forward to an eerily orderly morning of pod people going about their business. Nancy, an earlier separated member of the group, spots Matthew walking across the courtyard to City Hall.
They weren't close before in any way except how fighting for their lives together made everyone close. But all their friends including their separate love interests are long dead, and any kind of human familiarity is too tempting to pass up.
She breaks pod person character and calls out to him.
He turns, appraises her a moment... and answers with one of those piercing screams, summoning the other pod people down on her.
The aliens win.
