Slavery in Science Fiction

"On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends." --Oscar Wilde

In Rich Horton's review of Emphyrio he notes that this is one of Vance's "more melancholy books". How melancholy? After having loaned my copy, and not getting it back, I've never bothered to buy another copy of this book. In contrast, I have many other Vance novels that I have re-read until they fell apart.

As mentioned in my previous blog post, it is not unusual for the young protagonists in Vance's SciFi novels to find themselves dealing with the loss of family members; often they have been murdered. In Empyrio, Ghyl Tarvoke must struggle along through life after the death of his father. As I recall (I last read the story more than 20 years ago), we never learn much about Ghyl's mother. Lonely boys against the world dominate many of Vance's stories.

Star Wars - Leia

Slaves. When selecting dark themes for his stories, along with the frequent murders, Vance is not reluctant to include slavery.

Examples of overt, conventional slavery are found in Vance's Demon Princes novels. Gersen's family was destroyed by criminals who attacked the community of Mt. Pleasant, killing many and enslaving the other victims.

In The Palace of Love, Gersen visits the city of Sabra on the planet Murchison where slaves produce fine tapestries.

In Vance's Allastor Clustor novels there are space pirates who never hesitate to capture and enslave young women. I've never read Vance's Slaves of the Klau.


In The Palace of Love, Gersen encounters slavery at every turn. The climax of the plot comes when Gersen visits Viole Falushe's Palace of Love on the world Sogdian. The residents at the Palace of Love think of themselves as the Fortunate Folk, living their lives at the Palace where they think only of how to contrive romantic encounters.

When Gersen, playing the role of a journalist, finally manages to "interview" Falushe, he notes that the Fortunate Folk live without any of the normal concerns and responsibilities of life: they are slaves.

Viole Falushe agrees with Gersen's observations, but he chooses to emphasize the fact that the Fortunate Folk are not aware that they are slaves. Falushe adds, "All of us are slaves in some wise."

In Star King, a man (Rampold) had been the prisoner of the vile "beauty" Dasce for many years, held captive at a secret hiding place, and subjected to various forms of torture. With the help of Gersen, Rampold is suddenly given his freedom, but he has lost interest in civilization. Rather than return to a life of normalcy and comfort, he elects to remain alone on a distant planet, now holding Dasce as his prisoner.

Vance also often wrote about worlds where populations are subjected to tricky schemes of economic slavery. The planet Halma falls into this category. Ghyl discovers that his people are, unknowingly, economic slaves of the alien Damarans. Ghyl's father worked his whole life creating carved wooden screens, but the wealth from their sale went to the Damarans.

Star Trek - Vina

Star Trek - Drusilla

No human male can resist them. Slavery has been a feature of both Star Trek and Star Wars. I've always been amazed by the sheer amount of murder, slavery and violence in general within science fiction stories. SciFi is not some freakish bastion of horror. For example, the Bible has plenty of murder, slavery and violence. I can almost understand Gene Roddenberry constructing a story in which there is an effort made to tempt a starship captain with a green Orion slave girl. The effort fell flat, but it provided an opportunity to splash some (green) skin across millions of television screens.

What was Jaba's interest in Leia? Bait to lure Han to his death? I mentally stumble over idea that in a culture with amazing technologies such as starships and robots there might be people would still think that slavery is a good idea. Including slavery in stories about technologically advanced future cultures is as hard for me to swallow as the suggestion that in the year 2012 General Motors would put slaves into their factories rather than paid employees or robots. Is outer space so vast that there will always be a "fringe of society" where people behave like it were 1000 BC on Earth?

I suspect that in Hollywood they have data from the folks in marketing to show that profits rise 12.4% if a taught bare thigh finds its way into a story (or, more importantly, into the advertising art work). The commercial realities of SciFi probably are such that including just one slave girl in your story generates enough $$$ to justify building slavery in your fictional universe of the future. You can always generate "human interest" by making a story about revenge for murder or the struggle to escape from slavery.....or, if it floats your boat, the slave girl's discovery that she likes being a slave.

Disclaimer: I've never read any of the novels in the Chronicles of Gor. Almost everything I know about these books is from discussions of them (example). Could there be a human culture within which slavery was welcomed and enjoyed by slaves? John Lange seems to have made a tremendous effort to construct such an alternate reality.

Apparently a favorite theme in Gor novels is for a human from Earth to suddenly be removed from Earth and placed on Gor. For example, "the slave girl of Gor" is apparently an Earth woman (Judy Thornton) who suddenly finds herself transplanted to a culture where she is trained how to be a slave. Judy eventually decides that in the alien-constructed culture of Gor, the slaves actually have more freedom than non-slaves.

What interests me about the stories of John Lange is the backstory; there are obvious parallels to the Exodemic Fictional Universe. Humans on Earth are relatively primitive and there are technologically advanced aliens who have visited Earth and taken humans to live on another world: Gor. These aliens (apparently they have no better name than the Priest-Kings) limit the technology that is available to humans (and other similar species that have been brought there) and all this is done for some purpose, but I've not discovered a description or account of why the Priest-Kings collect creatures like humans and turn them into slaves. From my perspective, it is all done to allow Lange to play out his philosophical and sexual fantasies.

I guess the Priest-Kings are modeled after social insects, so slavery might seem "natural" to the Priest-Kings. Ed Wilson has often suggested that we try to imagine the ethics and morals of a sapient being that had evolved from a social insect such as an ant. The Priest-Kings prefer to live underground and they are oriented around olfaction rather than vision. They have technologies that are almost magical to us, such as being able to move their planet through the galaxy and, even when placing it in our Solar System, they can keep it concealed from primitive human technology.

Exode
I'm currently constructing a new novel (Exode) set in the Exodemic Fictional Universe. In developing Exode, I've struggled to find a way to slip a murder into the plot.

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What about slavery, is there a place for it in Exode? The story begins on the world Hemmal, one of many planets located towards the center of our galaxy. There are space aliens in Exode, but the story is centered on humans who were taken away from Earth by the Huaoshy and transplanted to places such as Hemmal.

Why do the Huaoshy bother? The motives of the Huaoshy are not really an issue in Exode. Just as a rancher might irrigate grass in a field, the Huaoshy like to nurture creatures such as we humans. The people of Hemmal live their lives never meeting the Huaoshy or having a chance to become aware of the fact that the Huaoshy are responsible for creating the human species and bringing some humans to Hemmal.

It is not easy for primitive creatures like we humans to understand the Huaoshy. The Huaoshy did have a biological origin that was quite conventional: evolving on an Earth-like planet over the course of billions of years. However, the Huaoshy established a technological civilization about a billion years ago on a planet in a distant galaxy. The Huaoshy long ago created their current physical form, that of an artificial lifeform. The Huaoshy are approximately as different from we humans as we are from a bacterium.

The backstory of Hemmal is that the Huaoshy have been spreading outward from their home galaxy for hundreds of millions of years. The Huaoshy reached our galaxy about 7 million years ago. The Huaoshy set in motion a process by which humanity was created from the primate stock originally available on Earth. The humans on planets like Hemmal are part of the on-going effort by the Huaoshy to domesticate and genetically improve the lifeforms in our galaxy.  I've previously suggested that the relationship between humanity and the Huaoshy is similar the relationship between grass in a pasture and a horse rancher.

pro-choice alien, Adam and three candidate Eves

Are the people of Hemmal nothing more than slaves? They are prevented from learning the truth about their origins and the Huaoshy, but they lead happy lives. Happy and restricted. They might resent their role as breeding stock if they were aware of it.

In addition to the human population of Hemmal there is a large population of humanoid robots. The robots are tools of the Huaoshy, but they provide the humans with all of their material needs. The Huaoshy have a very sophisticated nanotechnology that is deployed on worlds such as Hemmal in the form of the robots, medical nanites (that provide the residents of Hemmal with long, healthy lives) and a few high-tech devices such as food synthesizers and the genetically engineered plant-like organisms that are used to help terraform planets like Hemmal and provide the human residents with a convenient supply of electrical energy.

I'm Spartacus!

I'm Spartacus!

The robots create and maintain the shape of human culture on Hemmal. The robots raise the children, indoctrinating them with the conventions of an artificial civilization that serves the purposes of the Huaoshy and this assures that the humans never question their origins or their destiny. Is any human living under such conditions a slave?

What seems most important to me is this: do you, as an individual, feel like a slave and desire freedom? The main character in Exode is Parthney, a rare mutant among the human population of Hemmal. In general, the medical nanites of Hemmal constantly watch for deleterious mutations and correct them. However, there is one particular mutation that the Huaoshy plan for and make use of. Parthney suffers from this special mutation and ultimately it leads him to believe that the people of Hemmal are slaves, but not until after Parthney has already served as an Interventionist agent while visiting Earth.

A blade of grass cannot resent the rancher's choice to let horses graze on grass, but Parthney resents how he was used to further the plans of the Huaoshy. He can burn with resentment, but Parthney still finds himself to be completely helpless, still trapped in the vast, transgalactic web that has been spun over millions of years by the Huaoshy.

Give me liberty

I'm not Spartacus. The dominion of the Huaoshy is actually more extensive than just a "transgalactic web". The Huaoshy have been spreading their cultural influence from galaxy to galaxy for hundreds of millions of years. By the time that the Huaoshy reach Earth, their civilization spans tens of thousands of galaxies. During their exploration of space, the Huaoshy have found thousands of planets where life evolved and human-like civilizations first appeared, flourished, faltered and then finally sank into nonexistence. Only by rare luck did the Huaoshy come into existence as an artificial lifeform that can persist across vast periods of time.

Parthney learns the truth about human origins and struggles with this question: is it better for humanity to accept the patronage of the Huaoshy or would humans be better off if they revolted and went their own way? Are we humans so proud and independent that we would prefer to risk a miserable self-generated plunge into destruction rather than live safely under the guiding influence of the Huaoshy?

Parthney wants to shout, "Give me liberty or give me death!" but across 100,000 galaxies the evidence indicates that liberty, for human-like species, is what leads to death. An important part of the "Huaoshy system" is that anytime someone like Parthney learns too much and begins to feel that they are being deprived of self-determination then they are put into close contact with the social group that they perceive as depriving them of self-determination. In the end, Parthney wants to "go all the way" and "meet his maker" and his cry becomes, "Give me enlightenment!". This is not easy to accomplish since the Huaoshy are essentially a synthetic state of matter that exists beyond the three spatial dimensions known to we humans. It is Parthney's son who elects to adopt freedom and abandon the Huaoshy system. In the Exode Saga, it is left to the reader to decide to what extent we here on Earth are slaves.

"Never before in history have slaves been so well fed, thoroughly medicated, lavishly entertained. But we are slaves nonetheless." -- Edward Abbey
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Star Trek Continues. A 21st century perspective on slavery in science fiction (watch).

Is Ava in Ex Machina a sex slave?

Related reading: science fiction as a literary genre.
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2015: Bringing back Ghyl Tarvoke for a second life. Also: Slaves of the Huaoshy

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Ancient Aliens

1979 - Ripley

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts about my Search for Interesting Hollywood Aliens (SIHA) in science fiction movies this summer. In Part 1 of this series, I gave my pessimistic prediction for what might be put up on the big screen by Hollywood when the idea of ancient alien visitors to Earth is brought into a SciFi flick. This weekend Prometheus is opening in the U.S.A. and I have been reading online accounts of the aliens.
"lots of candy for the eye and just about nothing for the brain"

now, cut that out!

Apparently the creators of Prometheus think it is cool to make ambiguous science fiction stories. The fans will debate the meaning of Prometheus until the sequel comes out. I can understand that approach as a strategy for stringing a television audience along year-after-year-after year. The X-files did it well. Will a movie audience put up with the same kind of treatment? $ure they will, if you market it right.

2012 -  "We must go one better! I want a whole bunch of mysterious black objects!"

"gardener in space"
I've seen many observers who interpret an early scene in Prometheus (see "oil crisis", below) as depicting aliens who come to planets like Earth and "seed their DNA patterns" into the environment, leading to the evolution of creatures like we humans...creatures who are chemically and structurally similar to the aliens. Why do this? Obviously, this ensures that there will be an endless parade of actresses in underwear who can play roles in horror movies about slimy alien snake-like creatures doing nasty things inside their bodies. However, the movie never says that Earth was seeded with alien DNA. The "oil crisis" scene at the start of the movie might be LV-223 about 2,000 years ago.

1968           2001: A Space Odyssey          One mysterious black object

Take my liver, please!

Why do these lithe heroines continually rush off to tinseltown and sign up for this kind of SciFi/horror trouble? Because there is always a lurking corporate magnate who eagerly rushes out to meet the aliens in hope of immortality or, at least, a seven figure Hollywood movie contract.

Any other questions?

mmm...liver!

Aliens left their calling card (a star map) on Earth so that we humans would build spaceships and travel through the stars and make a Summer Blockbuster movie about it. Those aliens really like mammals. We can be easily milked for endless runs of SciFi/horror trilogies, trilogies of prequels, trilogies of re-imaginings, etc etc.  

“What the hell? Is that it?!”
Prometheus 1 can't tell us anything coherent about the aliens because there must be a Prometheus 2 and a Prometheus 3. And then the Prometheus the Next Generation trilogy.

"pseudo sciency mumbo jumbo about DNA"

oil crisis

So, how do aliens "seed their DNA" into the ecosystems of planets? In The X-Files, it was "black oil", a mysterious substance that could infect humans and turn humanity into the slaves of aliens. In Prometheus there is a strange "dark liquid", a plot device that is well-stocked on LV-223 and that when poured out on a Hollywood movie set does anything called for in the story line. In Star Trek, such magical plot devices are given a name such as nanites.

dinner is served

Review (there will be a quiz on this). Did you get that? Here it is in 3D: if you want to send astronauts in underwear to a distant planet for your next horror movie then you use "dark liquid" to put alien DNA into the water. Stir and wait a while: humans  follow their "racial memory" (and cave paintings) upstream to the distant star of the aliens where the horrid decapitations and slimy snake-like things can parade across the big $creen of the $ummer blockbu$ter.

"one of the most disappointing movies I have seen"
I like the idea that human-like creatures might visit Earth and tell Earthlings their story, resulting in cave paintings and other evidence of "ancient astronauts". Why haven't we seen those human-like creatures lately? Maybe those human-like visitors to Earth suffered a technological disaster similar to "gray goo"...nanites-gone-wrong. Hey, these things happen when you let Hollywood script writers get involved.

If "shit happens" does not satisfy you, then blame everything on Jesus.

How do I get out of this movie?

What is the deep "big question" philosophy of Prometheus? " ... science fiction is really just the cautionary tale writ large. The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself. So God forbid we fly too close to that flame — we are going to get burned." So, if human-like creatures visited Earth thousands of years ago, it is best that we not know too much about that?

Science fiction is a rational exploration of a speculative fiction idea. Prometheus puts a boat-load of scientists into what can be interpreted as an antiscience fiction horror story. In Prometheus some old and dying rich dude (who wants to find the Fountain of Youth) loads up a crew of low-quality scientists and flies off to the stars. Prometheus is lost in a Hollywood fantasy where scientists are as ignorant about science as your average film school graduate and Hollywood script writer. Nothing need be explained or make sense in any horror movie, including Prometheus; just $plash the big $creen with enough blood and play plenty of loud annoying music....the $ummer turnstile$ will whirl. Ka-ching!

Antiscience? Lindelof: "It's definitely not anti-science" ..... "there are certain questions that we as humans should not be asking. ....That was the story that Ridley wanted to tell, and the story that I felt was really cool." Lindelof says that questions like where do we come from? are nonscientific questions, according to Lindelof they are spiritual questions. So, do I have this correct...humans are programmed to use science to explore philosophical questions and that inevitably leads to a horror story? As Lindelof says, "That's Frankenstein 101." I'm sorry Damon, but I don't agree. As far as I can tell, science is the only thing that gives humanity a chance to answering the question: where do we come from? True horror stories of humanity come from ignorance, often ignorance dressed up in the form if indisputable religious and philosophical doctrines.

Prometheus might be an equal opportunity offender. Some observers feel it is antiscience and others feel it is anti-religion (example). Maybe the film must be judged a success if people are discussing it.

2001 lights

Clarke's law says, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Stanley Kubrick, in the pre-CGI era, adapted this law for film and came up with, "Any advanced technology can be depicted on the big screen by weird music or a psychedelic light show". Here in the CGI era, in Prometheus this becomes, "Depict for a modern film audience a semi-human space ship passenger (who might have seemed like a god to primitive Earthlings) as performing a magical/religious ritual while using the advanced alien technology (black goo)". Um, why? In a future blog post I'll I attempt to put a positive Exodemic spin on this flick and "explain away" the antiscience overtones of the horror story elements of Prometheus.

X marks the disposable sperm donor?

A sense of wonder

"a staggering disappointment"

As a fictional scientist trying to achieve First Contact, I'll take Carl Sagan's Contact and Ellie Arroway over horror sperm donor Charlie Holloway. But then, I hate horror stories.

"Scott seduces audiences with thought-provoking possibilities, then pulls a bait-and-switch, subbing in a familiar monster thriller and fiery explosion-fest"

Caesarean section, anyone?

I was tempted to see this movie before I learned that it is just a tease that tells us nothing interesting about the aliens who visited Earth long ago. It is a tease with the next movie in the $erie$ already being di$cu$$ed. Rather than go to the theater, I find it more fun to imagine how Prometheus could be turned into an interesting SciFi flick (see this blog post).

Rated R for "Relentless Hollywood money machine".

Wait! Remember, this is a horror movie, where is the axe?

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God vs. Aliens 

Creationism for Geeks
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If there is no God and we, as a species, found evidence that we had been created by Hollywood aliens then would nihilism rule the box office? One solution to the Fermi Paradox is that humanoids inevitably destroy themselves: some technology (death stars, nuclear power, genetic engineering or nanorobotics, take your pick) will spin out of control and exterminate any technological species. Is that the inevitable Hollywood vision of a godless future?

Imagine that Ridley Scott is able to make a sequel (or two, or three or whatever the market will allow) to Prometheus: what are the chances that such a movie would say something interesting about aliens? Four puzzle pieces need to be fit in:

David, I am your father.

1) When I look into my crystal ball, I feel like my answer to this question should include artificial intelligence and humanoid robots. Do the "aliens" of Prometheus, "aliens" who have traveled between the stars for thousands of years, "aliens" who are so much like humans, also have artificial intelligence and robots?

2) Why is it that when humans finally make first contact, after 4,000,000,000 years of evolution, the aliens are very close to our level of technological development? Just so that humans can always defeat the Evil Aliens and allow for next year's $equel?

3) Are all humanoids blundering fools who will eventually unleashed a destructive "dark liquid" upon the universe, causing all biological lifeforms to be exterminated, leaving only their machines to continue into the future?

2020 - They want to put what inside of me?

4) What do the marketing expert$ in Hollywood judge to be the be$t mo$t profitable path forward for $ciFi movie$?

In the spirit of Prometheus, where the Big Answers are purposefully withheld, I'll leave this puzzle as an exercise for the reader. Answers are due before Noomi wakes up for the sequel.

"the weaknesses of Prometheus might be said to illustrate ... the negative impact of the large, greedy corporations that now govern the production of science fiction films"

Related news.... 

Apparently there was a decade-long effort to bring At the Mountains of Madness to the big screen. Since the plot of Prometheus is so similar to that in the 1931 H. P. Lovecraft horror story, that effort might need to wait until audience memories fade. I wonder how they planned to depict ancient alien ruins in a remote corner of Earth. Given the James Cameron connection, maybe the plan was to discover evidence for past visitors to Earth under water. Just think of the horrors that Cameron might dredge up from Lake Vostok.

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My fantasy about of how Hollywood is likely to complete the story told in Prometheus....

2015: Prometheus 2, or, Take Me to My Maker

I just wanted to get a head

Timewarp! So, it is now 2015. Elizabeth the Faithful still expects to have a nice chat with an "engineer". David's robot head is riding an alien hover-unicycle around the "engineer" ship during the trip to the "engineer" home world. We wonder....has the entire "engineer"  civilization been knocked out of the space age 2,000 years previously? David Headroom and Elizabeth the Faithful are the only two sentient beings who managed to escape from moon LV-223. Why is that? The rest of the crew was unworthy; a bunch of dope-smoking buggers who deserved to die in a horror movie. Elizabeth and David have the right stuff. It might be the gold...David has gold leads on his positronic brain circuits and Elizabeth has a gold cross.

At the alien home world David Headroom and the Alien Birther will learn the truth of humanity's past. Lucky for corporate, there will be many "engineers" in suspended animation on the "engineer" home world who can be awakened and infected with black slime in order to satisfy every Hollywood horror fetish. Then it will be time for Elizabeth and David to return triumphantly to Earth.

2020: Prometheus 3: The Voyage Home
But on the flight to Earth poor David will have his doubts. Logic will demand empirical evidence that worthy humans such as Elizabeth the Faithful are able to survive direct contact with the black slime. So, during their return flight to Earth, David will infect Noomi with black goo and something will grow inside her. Will it be the next stage human Star Child from 2001? In a horror movie? Get real. Well, maybe a Star Child with a giant prehensile snake-like organ (with teeth) that will emerge from Queen Elizabeth whenever an unworthy Earthling needs to be eliminated. Earth will be full of unworthy redshirts, more than enough to satisfy the casting call for yet another Hollywood horror movie.

Coming in 2025: a Prometheus the Next Generation trilogy.

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See the exciting conclusion to the 2012 Search for Interesting Hollywood Aliens

Click here to see how I would convert Prometheus from a horror movie into an intellectually-stimulating SciFi adventure flick.

2013 SIHA Award.

2014 SIHA.

Related reading: how ancient? 2,000,000,000 years; the alien Huaoshy.

SciFi Summer 2012

Thanos.

Here we are in the weekend of the US launch of The Avengers, Men in Black 3 is still about three weeks out and Prometheus will follow soon after.

Alien Invasion. Mr. Thanos is your evolutionary cousin, one of the branches of humanity that was created by the Celestials about 5 million years ago. As an Eternal, Thanos might be expected to protect Earth against the Deviants, but some how his mother was unable to pass the correct genes to him and so Thanos has some Deviant genes. Thanos is in love with Death, and is apparently involved with the alien invasion that forms the basis for The Avengers movie.

Men in Black 3

Is there any chance that future Marvel movies will expand on the exodemic-like plot elements of The Avengers (humans originated from the work of aliens who carried out genetic engineering on proto-human apes) or will those movies simply give us more conventional Hollywood good guys vs bad guys who run around blowing up things and each other?

Men in Black 3 has a time travel plot in which evil aliens must be thwarted. Apparently there are some interesting constraints on time travel such as a 24 hour limit when going back in time. I wonder if there will be any attempt to explain who gets to travel through time and for what purpose or if this will just be yet another example of someone in Hollywood saying, "we wanted to have a story back in the past so we just did it." In the Exodemic Fictional Universe the Huaoshy control all time travel and they only use it for special problems that arise on primitive planets.

Star map.

Last Summer I was titillated by the possibility that Hollywood might be catching on to the possibility of making movies about sneaky extraterrestrial visitors to Earth who would be here for reasons other than those depicted in typical alien invasion movies. I had high hopes for Prometheus, but it looks like little more than a re-do of Alien. Possibly a miracle will occur and there will be some explanation for how it was possible for "ancient astronauts" to leave a "calling card" (a star map) on Earth and then have nothing to do with Earth for thousands of years.

So there we have it, three Summer SciFi movies for 2012 that will be scooping up hundreds of millions of dollars, and all three of these movies had/have a chance to tell us something interesting about alien visitors to Earth. So far, The Avengers only has an evil dude using mind control to launch an alien invasion of Earth. Of course, the good guys beat back the attack....leaving room for the next movie in the $erie$.

Alien life from Prometheus.

Two chances remain for something interesting to slip out of Hollywood this Summer, but I'm not holding my breath for anything but more of the same tired old $tuff from Prometheus and Men in Black 3.

Here is my best-case scenario for Prometheus: maybe the aliens (for lack of a better name I'll call them the Slime Masters) who long ago visited Earth, have spent the past several thousand years developing their own entertainment industry. Fascinated by their own horror movies, the Slime Masters abandoned space travel and devoted all their creative energies to a genetics program resulting in the creation of armies of slime-dripping alien creatures that are good for thousands of years of Hollywood-type horror movies. When the Prometheus arrives at the home world of the Slime Masters, the aliens recognize a great marketing opportunity and rush back to Earth to license their slime-dripping creatures for use as props in Hollywood. To their great dismay, they realize that Hollywood has its own armies, thousands of geeky CGI programmers who do nothing but dream up new monsters for Hollywood productions. Dismayed and demoralized, the Slime Masters go back to a time (1975) when they can sell their slimy creatures to the highest bidder...resulting in the inspiration for the original Alien movie. Writers for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes will write long articles about the deep significance of Prometheus as social commentary about capitalism. The movie will become required part of business school curricula across the country. The Occupy Movement will make use of the slime-dripping aliens of Prometheus as icons of the super rich.

Have a nice Summer!

This (above) is the first of a series of blog posts about my Search for Interesting Hollywood Aliens (SIHA). Here are links to the other SIHA 2012 blog posts:
Disney and Entertainment and Science Fiction, Oh My!
Horror, Comedy and SciFi in the Woods?
Aliens in Drag
Ancient Aliens
The exciting conclusion to the 2012 Search for Interesting Hollywood Aliens
Promethean Rorschach Test