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#1 2008-12-12 04:59:23
- AceMcCloud
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Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
I saw a discussion of this on the Baen Bar (Ringo's Tavern to be specific). It's an interesting question. What do you think is the scariest and/or creepiest alien menace that you have ever read about? It must be a sentient race from a science fiction universe.
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#2 2008-12-12 05:18:19
- Eric Storm
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Re: Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
There was this race called.... humans. Sca-ary! 
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#3 2008-12-12 05:25:14
Re: Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
AceMcCloud wrote:
I saw a discussion of this on the Baen Bar (Ringo's Tavern to be specific). It's an interesting question. What do you think is the scariest and/or creepiest alien menace that you have ever read about? It must be a sentient race from a science fiction universe.
Ace
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I vote for the "Posleen" of John Ringo's "Hymn before Battle" and "Gust Front" - Some kind of wierd horse with an alligator mouth intent on feeding on humans and some kind of unstoppable in battle...
Good stories too
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#4 2008-12-12 21:01:00
- Khellendros
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Re: Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
Daleks
Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.
You get the picture...
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#5 2008-12-13 00:08:09
Re: Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
Khellendros wrote:
Daleks
Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.
You get the picture...
I used to think they were hillarious. All it would take is a flight of stairs to stump them. I think the new Dr. Who series seriously revamped them.
The aliens that freaks me out the most is the Aliens. There's nothing scarier than being hunted in the dark. The lucky ones are killed quickly, others get captured, implanted and their chest blown out.
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#6 2008-12-13 06:39:01
- Neitherspace
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Re: Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
i think any alien that considers humans yummy esp when we're still moving
i forget the storey but there is one ive read about a earth ship from the future crashing in the past the insect race in that one was particularly unsettling
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#7 2008-12-13 19:42:53
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Re: Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
I don't know about scariest, but I recently watched "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -- the 1980 remake. There's something very unsettling about humans-that-aren't. The final shot of the movie really drives the point home.
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#8 2008-12-14 01:09:18
Re: Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
Eric Storm wrote:
There was this race called.... humans. Sca-ary!
Eric
Greetings
If we're including peeps then its easy:
Hannibal Lector
Hands down scariest
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#9 2008-12-14 05:55:18
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Re: Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
Imagineer wrote:
I don't know about scariest, but I recently watched "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -- the 1980 remake. There's something very unsettling about humans-that-aren't. The final shot of the movie really drives the point home.
one of the few films that i prefer the original
that
king kong (loved Peter Jackson's version but still)
night of the living dead
miracle on 34th street
and its a wonderful life
i get the feeling i'll feel the same about day the earth stood still 2
OH sil/eve from Species a sexy female alien who would lit fuck the world to death
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#10 2008-12-14 09:01:53
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Neitherspace wrote:
i think any alien that considers humans yummy esp when we're still moving
i forget the storey but there is one ive read about a earth ship from the future crashing in the past the insect race in that one was particularly unsettling
That's Monbade's "The Destroyers" series, currently writting book 3.
It starts out fine, but gets too convoluted in my opinion.
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#11 2008-12-14 16:58:30
- Storymaster69
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Re: Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
AceMcCloud wrote:
I saw a discussion of this on the Baen Bar (Ringo's Tavern to be specific). It's an interesting question. What do you think is the scariest and/or creepiest alien menace that you have ever read about? It must be a sentient race from a science fiction universe.
Ace
Personally I find the non-sentient alien more scary. If you just have a non-thinking killing machine going after you especially in swarms there is absolutely no reasoning with them (even if the "reasoning" is big gun go boom you go splat!). You either run as fast as you can and hope to loose them or you are dead.
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#12 2008-12-15 21:32:51
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Re: Scary and/or creepy alien menaces
Veritas wrote:
Neitherspace wrote:
i think any alien that considers humans yummy esp when we're still moving
i forget the storey but there is one ive read about a earth ship from the future crashing in the past the insect race in that one was particularly unsettlingThat's Monbade's "The Destroyers" series, currently writting book 3.
It starts out fine, but gets too convoluted in my opinion.
yea i agree major charicters dying is cool but not when you end up w 20 of em
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