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Cross Species Breeding in fantasy sifi
MoSeS:
--- Quote from: neurovore on July 29, 2010, 07:24:16 PM ---But I'm not talking about "I like this", I am talking about "the logic of this holds". These are different criteria.
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I concede, good point.
--- Quote from: Thrythlind on July 29, 2010, 08:10:58 PM ---Science Fiction is the fiction of what could happen
Fantasy is the fiction of what can't happen
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I see now, very good explanation.
@Nickeris86
I heard the AVP books were amazing, and the newest Predators adaptation by Trouble Maker studios is trying to go back to the roots of the first two movies, and get away from the AVP adaptations.
With that said, I tend to find the Intergalctic breeding of most Sci-Fi to be less believable than breeding with Fantasy races such as Elves and Dwarves.
Because the later would be Earthling, I think the would be way more likely to produce offspring with a Human than a Nebari or Klingon or ET. Granted these are all bad examples since I don't think they have ever produced offspring in any of the fiction, but I can't think of any alien/human hybrid at the moment.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Thrythlind on July 29, 2010, 09:10:50 PM ---there is a breaking point of definite difference though...especially when do things like count the chromosomes of a DNA strand
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That phrase in a published book would be a fairly strong indication to me that the writer does not know molecular biology from a hole in the ground; it's on a par with the Northern English writer of Westerns who mentioned setting up a campfire overnight with coyotes circling in the sky overhead.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: MoSeS_ on July 30, 2010, 01:45:46 PM ---With that said, I tend to find the Intergalctic breeding of most Sci-Fi to be less believable than breeding with Fantasy races such as Elves and Dwarves.
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May I ask what SF you are actually reading here ?
MoSeS:
--- Quote from: neurovore on July 30, 2010, 03:38:16 PM ---May I ask what SF you are actually reading here ?
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Actually I was just making a general statement toward any alien/human offspring, but at the moment I am having difficulty actually recalling any, but I am sure there has been, I just can't think of any.
I found a small list of alien children in film, but no human/alien hybrids, besides Species(title), and that's not like normal reproduction. I just know it's been done, it's driving me crazy.
http://www.explore-science-fiction-movies.com/alien-children.html#axzz0vBQCV3ni
*this is relavant
Can anyone recall any significant/popular alien-human children?
Apocrypha:
Worf from Star Trek the Next Generation had his son with a half-human, half-Klingon woman.
Dianan Troi (also from STNG) was half human and half Betazoid.
My nephew watches a cartoon called Ben-10 that seems to focus on several characters who are half human and half alien.
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