IP Law might've gotten a bit out of date after a thousand years of tyrannical dick-rule.
[Flipping over the casing, looking for a mention of Tolkien. Or maybe JRR Vulcan.]
[And don't be ridiculous, he'd start with 'Sense and Sensability and Seamonters' or 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'.]
Might be parallel development, too. Someone on some planet that's never even heard of Frodo Baggins gets an idea about how tiny ordinary people can change the world, puts it to paper, that's the version that takes off in this reality. Then hundreds of years later some alien finds the Earth version and writes a college thesis about the universality of narrative themes across separate cultures or something.Sorta like how a whole bunch of places on Earth all have pyramids, only with elves and riddle contests.
It makes you wonder if we're really that much different, doesn't it?
[ She gives a thoughtful little hum, peering down at the book with a curious look on her face. ]
I'd never really thought about it that much before, but I always figured... if we were ever going to run into aliens then they'd be totally different to anything they'd seen before. But honestly, so far, it hasn't been that much stranger than meeting someone from a different country. It's strange, isn't it?
It's definitely reassuring. It makes me feel a bit less like... I don't know. An outsider?
[ even though, really, that's exactly what all of them are. None of them even belong on this planet, let alone in this world.
She glances back over at her shoulder, at the bustling crowds of people going about their business without a care in the world. It's still baffling to think how far from home she is. ]
Is that what it feels like for you, when you travel?
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[Flipping over the casing, looking for a mention of Tolkien. Or maybe JRR Vulcan.]
[And don't be ridiculous, he'd start with 'Sense and Sensability and Seamonters' or 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'.]
Might be parallel development, too. Someone on some planet that's never even heard of Frodo Baggins gets an idea about how tiny ordinary people can change the world, puts it to paper, that's the version that takes off in this reality. Then hundreds of years later some alien finds the Earth version and writes a college thesis about the universality of narrative themes across separate cultures or something.Sorta like how a whole bunch of places on Earth all have pyramids, only with elves and riddle contests.
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[ She gives a thoughtful little hum, peering down at the book with a curious look on her face. ]
I'd never really thought about it that much before, but I always figured... if we were ever going to run into aliens then they'd be totally different to anything they'd seen before. But honestly, so far, it hasn't been that much stranger than meeting someone from a different country. It's strange, isn't it?
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[ even though, really, that's exactly what all of them are. None of them even belong on this planet, let alone in this world.
She glances back over at her shoulder, at the bustling crowds of people going about their business without a care in the world. It's still baffling to think how far from home she is. ]
Is that what it feels like for you, when you travel?