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james_davis_nicollThe Wanderers (Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam)
The text version can be found here.
Read by Kate Baker
Powerful but not terribly bright aliens decide to travel to Earth to enslave and then torture the inhabitants, only to be frustrated by the apparent absence of the humans when the aliens arrive.
Two comments:
First: "aliens wander around baffled, making commentary on the human condition in the process" has been done a fair amount and I think you have to do more with the concept now than Stufflebeam does.
Second:
These are some seriously America-centric Earth-conquering aliens.
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The text version can be found here.
Read by Kate Baker
Powerful but not terribly bright aliens decide to travel to Earth to enslave and then torture the inhabitants, only to be frustrated by the apparent absence of the humans when the aliens arrive.
Two comments:
First: "aliens wander around baffled, making commentary on the human condition in the process" has been done a fair amount and I think you have to do more with the concept now than Stufflebeam does.
Second:
We came to your planet because we knew that you, the peoples of Kill Bill and Saw and Vietnam and Columbine Massacre would understand us.
[...]
Joker and Samara and Alexander Great and Corleone
[...]
“That place was like Iraq War,”
[...]
like Cloverfield.”
[...]
We saw Alien and War of Worlds and Roswell Area 51 Alien Autopsy Revealed.
[...]
Moon Landing and Mars Rover Mohawk Man
These are some seriously America-centric Earth-conquering aliens.
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