Would you, if you could, live with aliens?
One of the joys of writing fiction is the freedom to imagine and create something beyond the realities that we know. I’ve always believed that there have to be other life forms in the vastness of our universe. Heck, there probably are ghosts too. I’m sure I saw the ghost of our dog after she died. Then again it could have been an hallucination.
But, back to my question. In my Em and Yves series, aliens toy with Em, use her to “fix” Earth, play with her emotions and her sanity. None of it fair, of course, but then every novel needs some spice. Of course, I had to give her a chance for a bit of revenge so I let her wild emotions impact the aliens, much to their horror.
As I wrote books 2, 3 and 4, I wondered if Em or any human could or would leave Earth,
leave everything they held dear, likely forever, to go live on another planet with other beings. What would it take to tempt a person to do such a thing? What reassurances would they need? A promise to be able to return home, the opportunity to bring their family with them…?
Would I? Could I? What circumstances would lead me to make that kind of decision, to go into the unknown?
I don’t have answers for myself and so I ask, would you, if you could, live with aliens?
No comments:
Post a Comment