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

[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.