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At Graeme Ing’s blog today, I’m talking about one of my favorite things… besides aliens. Do you know what it is? Come find out if you’re right.
My Favorite Martian
Hosted by Maurice and Nigel at The Geek Twins .
I had a hard time deciding between the Cardassians from Deep Space Nine, Londo Mollari from Babylon 5, and Apophis from Stragate: SG-1.
The Tailor and Gul Dukat in Deep Space Nine added a lot of intrigue and fun, plus they demonstrated individuality within an alien race instead of lumping all individuals of a race under one stereotype.
Mollari was complicated, which intrigued me. He was often a dastard, but he also had a conscience which got the better of him sometimes.
Apophis made no apologies for being bad and he seemed to really enjoy himself in the process. He had his own agenda and motives, which were rotten by human standards but merely ambitious by Goa’uld standards. Anyway, the joy he brought to what he did made me love watching him.
Do you have a favorite?
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1303 The Dragonslayer by Christine Rains
Cover reveal! Genre: paranormal romance Release date: February 13th, 2013
On the rooftop of neighboring building, dragonslayer Xanthus Ehrensvard fires at his target, Governor Whittaker. How he missed the shot, he doesn’t know, but fleeing the scene, he picks up an unwanted passenger. Gorgeous reporter Lois King saw Xan’s face, and she believes it’s the story to make her career. Except he can’t let her walk away knowing what he looks like. Xan has to show her the Governor is a bigger threat to the world than he is.
Xan knows dragons never went extinct. They evolved with human society, taking on mortal forms, and slithered their way into positions of great influence and power, just like the Governor.But it’s no easy chore proving to someone that dragons still exist, and even more so, they’re disguised as famous people. Xan must convince Lois or find another way to silence her. An option, as he gets to know her, he likes less and less.
After all, dragonslayers are no longer celebrated heroes but outlaws. Just as the dragons wish it. But this outlaw must make a plan to slay the dragon or risk its retribution.
Author Bio:
Christine Rains is a writer, blogger, and geek mom. She has four degrees which help nothing with motherhood, but make her a great Jeopardy player. When she’s not writing or reading, she having adventures with her son or watching cheesy movies on Syfy Channel. She’s a member of S.C.I.F.I. The 13th Floor series is her first self-published series. She has four novellas and eighteen short stories published.
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Yeah for Christine!
I couldn’t select just one either. And we both selected a Star Trek and Stargate alien. That is just too cool.
I love everything about DS9 and you’re right, those two showed such difference in personalities and goals.
Christine’s cover looks great!
Off to visit Graeme now.
Yeah so many great aliens! I never liked the Cardassians much. A bit too reptilian for me, but I suppose that made them great, memorable aliens in their own way. Great picks! :D My Blog Fest Post</a.
My favorite martian is Ford Prefect.
There are so many great ones to choose from, Alex.
After TOS, DS9 was my favorite of the Star Treks, Laura.
They were often annoying, Liesel, but I think that can make for some good fun.
Nice pick, Suze.
Interesting. I would’ve completely dismissed the Cardassans but your mention of Garak (the tailor) reminded me just how complex his character was. I loved his interplay with Bashir.
Favorite alien? Not really. Scorpius from Farscape is all that comes to mind. I do love him. :)
I really enjoyed the interplay of Garak and Bashir, too, Jeff.
Farscape was great fun, Libby. The ships themselves were aliens.
I love Londo too! No matter how many bad things he did, I couldn’t help but feel for him from time to time. He was definitely a complicated character. I have no problem admitting that Babylon 5 is still one of my favorite shows!
I didn’t have time to do this blogfest as I had already committed to doing the cover reveal on my blog today. I don’t like to combine stuff or otherwise a post may lose its effectiveness if there’s too much going on. Maybe the Geek Twins will have another fun blog fest in which I’ll participate :)
Thanks so much for helping reveal The Dragonslayer cover! It’s hard to pick one favorite alien. I LOVE the Doctor (Doctor Who). I also loved the characters in Farscape, particularly D’Argo and Chiana. Phlox is one of my favorite from ST.
Lots of aliens on this blogfest that I’ve never heard of! haha. But I love the cover of Dragonslayer! :)
I did really enjoy him, LG.
These days it seems we must commit to several things just to keep up, Michael. It was a fun blogfest.
You’re welcome, Christine. Chiana was a great character. She was interesting.
Epic choices MPax. Londo was a fascinatingly complicated character. I never would have thought of him. Thanks for jumping on the blog hop train.
I enjoyed DS9. When they first introduced the Ferengi, I was less than impressed, but they kind of grew on me. Some of them.
It is a very purty cover, Tamara.
I do miss Londo, Maurice. Thanks for having such a fun blogfest.
Yeah, DS9 and the Ferengi grew on me, too, Donna. Weird how they do that.
Great choice Mpax, I reckon Mollari got his just desserts. Its always hard picking an alien favorite, theres so many of them around. Oh look my spaceship has arrived, LOL.
Saying hello from the blogfest! Thanks for sharing your faves. I think that complicated characters-or in this case-aliens, are able to better catch our attention because there are so many layers to them.
I’m not familiar with the other two, but yes, the Cardassians were a very well-developed alien culture and one of the best elements in ‘Deep Space Nine’. As you say, they had a lot of variety, but a few shared values, especially a sort of essential paradox, in that they had a lot of respect for internal hierarchy and the chain of command, but valued duplicity and outwitting one’s adversary. Great choice!
Aliens are awesome. Lando was great and well done. You could hate him yet understand where he was coming from.
Londo was my favorite part of Babylon 5 (even if he spoke like Dracula). Garak was one of many favorite elements from Deep Space Nine.
Now, imagine if they met…!
I forget, do they have to be from movies or TV? I’ve been seeing this question all day long and I get a different idea every time. I do love the Xelee from Stephen Baxter’s novels, as well as the Wolves of Alastiar Reynolds’ Revelation Space Universe (the Alien AI that roams the galaxy) and of course.
The more I think about it though, it’s probably the Tines from Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep universe, that’s a good as they come.
Way too many, Spacerguy.
You’re right, Cynthia. I think it also makes them less straight forward and, thus, less cliche.
I enjoyed them, Chris. They did add a lot of complexity.
Things always got interesting when Londo was involved, Holly. I suppose that’s why I liked him so much. Would he be good or bad? You could never tell with him.
lol Now that would be quite interesting, Tony.
Those are marvelous choices, Rusty.
I’ve got a big crush on Christine’s cover guy LOL. I’ve read the first two 13th Floor books and can’t wait to read this one next, great series.
Heading over to Graeme’s now. :)
Mollari was definitely an intriguing and interesting character that developed more and more fully as Babylon5 progressed. I hadn’t thought about that show in a while . . .thanks for the reminder. This fest just seems to be getting me in the mood for reruns on netflix.
What a great cover!
I’ve been checking out some of the bloghop posts and there are tons of aliens I’ve never ever heard of… LOL :)
I don’t know about Martians, but I can remember having a morbid fascination with the lizard-like aliens from the early 80′s sci-fi mini series “V”… they came to earth under false pretenses, to gather humans as food and steal the water!
I need to go and check some of these out. They sound right up my street! Thanks for sharing them.
It is some nice eye-candy, Julie.
I adored Babylon 5. What a fun show it was, Tyrean.
I remember those, Michelle. It seems lizards and the Roswell types are the most popular kind of invented aliens.
Thanks for stopping in, JG.
Gul Dukat was awesome as was Garak. They were so deliciously deceitful, perfect foils for Sisko.
Congrats to Christine! What an incredible sounding story.
Christine’s cover is…nice. ;)
I don’t know any of those aliens! I’m terrible!