Epic Sci-Fi

Post date: Feb 27, 2012 2:33:47 PM

I know that fantasy and science-fiction have been successfully merged before (James Cameron's Avatar); but recently, I've been thinking why not bring epic poems and classic stories into space?

How cool would it be to read Homer's Odyssey in space? Instead of a rock shoal and a whirlpool, Scylla and Charybdis could be twin black holes, maybe from a collapsed binary star, or an asteroid field and a black hole. Troy and Greece could be planets in different systems. You could call it "Helen of Sector 20.18.15.25" instead of "Helen of Troy".

That'd actually be pretty cool.