WTF Is "Alien Exodus?"

[lazypadawan]

In all of this time, I’d never heard of “Alien Exodus” until I saw a link on Twitter to a short article about it (which in turn has a link to a Wookieepedia entry.)

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Alien_Exodus

To sum it up, it was an expanded universe attempt in the 1990s to explain the origins of people in the SW Universe: Earthlings in the 25th century decide they had enough of the Big Blue Marble and its oppression so they travel BACK in time to several millennia ago in another galaxy, the SW galaxy. There, they are promptly turned into slaves again. D’oh! The even weirder part of this summary is that the proposed tale was going to tie in the whole Lucasverse.

The author of this proposed book, which never got the full ok and therefore was never published, posted what he’d written on his own web site:

http://www.sfwriter.com/alienout.htm

http://www.sfwriter.com/alien.htm

Comments

[girlofavalon.livejournal.com]

Huh? That sounds weird.

I personally think that if one would want to tie our universe with the Lucasverse, it would make a lot more sense to say that somehow the humans in the GFFA managed to travel to our galaxy and ended up populating Earth, not the other way around. That's an idea I love to toy with, to be honest.

[frostbit-sky.livejournal.com]

I had never heard of this before. Glad they axed it.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought it was a little weird.

[krpalmer.livejournal.com]

I suppose I find this sort of thing amusing in a "perhaps a little too clever" sort of way; I usually don't worry about making connections like the one you described. I'm reminded, though, of a "Star Wars versus Star Trek" fanfic (written by somebody who seemed to dislike Star Trek in the 1990s a bit more than he liked Star Wars) where at the close of the story the last Star Trek survivors plunged through space and time fleeing the victorious resurgent Empire and wound up settling a desolate planet that would become Coruscant...

I do know that Robert J. Sawyer seems a determined self-promoter, so in some ways I'm not surprised he was trying to get his finger in that particular pie.

A good imagination, I'll give him that.

[pronker]

Behind the scenes stuff, interesting. I like the idea of GFFA being completely separate from us in canon, though. I'd rather not have an 'ah-hah' moment similar to the one at the end of Planet of the Apes.

Re: A good imagination, I'll give him that.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Maybe Earth and the GFFA co-exist in canon but we're too far apart to ever meet. Or maybe the Whills showed up one day at Lucas's house and gave him the book ;).

Re: A good imagination, I'll give him that.

[pronker]

Alsoalso, this guy treats the GFFA like just part of the fictional universes he writes in, whereas you and I know that Star Wars is real.

Re: A good imagination, I'll give him that.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Of course ;).