Hello, it’s me, Paul. I created this website for myself and anyone who is interested in going beyond what is possible and take our collective child-like imaginations as far as we can go.
Today, I want to ask a question that has been in my head for years and years. Since I was little actually. As fans of science fiction literature, videos, and audio broadcasts, I have wondered just how making contact with aliens, assuming nothing too bad happens to us because of it, will impact science fiction that deals with aliens.
Shows like Star Trek, Star Wars, and a variety of other shows and books have deal with humans’s contact and coexistence with alien species. Sometimes, it is with dozens of them like in Babylon 5 or thousans of races as in Star Wars. I don’t really think the creators of Star Trek really know how many alien civilizations exist in their universe.
I was worried that authors would suddenly give up writing about aliens and there would never be another sci-fi book about aliens ever again.
Now that I am older, I know better (rather, I know that I know a lot less than I thought when I was a kid).
If, or rather when, we make contact with an alien civilization that we can communicate with, the alien sub-genre of sci-if will continue to exist. Perhaps, it will even flourish and grow.
Writers will explore possibilities of meeting other aliens and focus on issues like our own existence in the universe. Our fears of the great space unknown will continue to exist – aliens wanting to wipe out humanity even if the one we met might not want to. Perhaps, more focus will be preparing humanity to coexist and joining the galactic expanse rather than being fearful of being invaded.
So, if you had pondered this question before, let me alley your fears – there will still be plenty of tales about aliens. Space operas, noirs, colonization of other unoccupied worlds, and, yes, invasions/space wars will continue to fill our imaginations.
Pangeaverse 