Life
has
changed for a San Francisco lab technician and his gay son when
aliens land on Earth,
inadvertently provide mankind with rare gifts, and
attempt to satisfy their own
curiosity
about the human race.
With
all the recent apocalyptic predictions, and justified concerns about
global warming and depletion of natural resources, I wanted to show
how an otherworldly event could have
a positive effect on a planetary scale. Though
I’ve written other alien visitation scenarios, I thought I’d make
this one different by putting a contemporary spin on the sort of
tales that had emerged from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, which
were prevalent during my childhood; whatever they lacked in plot
development or verisimilitude they made up for with a sense of
wonder. From a LGBT standpoint, I felt compelled to depict the impact
of HIV transmission in the most human way possible, without relying
on tropes or emotional manipulation. I hope I succeeded.
