My initial reaction was confusion, during the process of dissecting (pun intended) the work as I was reading. When the realization of the setting & circumstances of the world set in I began feeling a slight bit of disgust and concern at what was occurring and the parasitic nature of the aliens' interaction with the humans in the story. Possibly some metaphor is occurring that at this time I'm having trouble wrapping my head around. A second reading and maybe some time to think about the text would allow me time to maybe unravel some kind of metaphor/representation that is trying to be conveyed in this work.
2. What connections did you with the story that you read? Discuss the elements of the work that you were able to connect.
The story consists of connections in regards to slavery and also aspects of romance and coming of age themes in relation to the specific characters. Surface level the humans in this story are enslaved but deeper there's themes of romance between the very different creatures and coming of ages in regards to the main character. Especially in relation to the boys coming of age is the absorption of traumatic experiences and events into there upbringing and how that will affect him later on. Also a strange concept of male pregnancy? The fact that any person can become "pregnant" and it doesn't matter what sex or gender, you can carry a parasitic creature to term. The metaphor of a baby being parasitic in nature (literally) could also be a theme being explored in the work.
3. What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium? What medium would you use? What changes would you make?
This work altered into a film format seems somewhat obvious but, could possibly lose some of the deeper aspects of the story. I like the idea of this story being turned into some type of longer-form media such as a mini-series or interactive video game. To allow full time for the audience to interacted and absorb the work. A mini-series would most appropriate. Allowing for maybe a five-part HBO (or whatever) series that would allow for looser and more artistic representation of the work itself. The work could be given at somewhat face value, you'd obviously have to resolve visualization of the aliens and the setting (which could be left to artistic choices) but, the story itself put into a longer format could probably do it justice.
4. What does the future look like in fifteen years?
The slow realization of the importance of climate change and the different reactions to this will manifest in the fifty-year mark and the beginning manifestations of the worst-case or best-case scenarios.
5. What does the future look like in fifty years?
A slow burn (literally) climate disaster where small incremental change happens to attempt to fix it but in the end isn't fast enough or effective enough. That will cause slower versions of the quick burn situation which would more likely end in the authoritarian governments.
A quick burn climate disaster that causes massive social upheaval that either destroys society and replaces it with authoritarian governments that quicken the death of the earth OR that pulls everyone together and the world turns into Star Trek environmentally neutral future.
Also maybe some super billionaire retreat to mars could occur in any of these outcomes.
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