The Invaders

http://youtu.be/xiFHaKj_-HM

I remember watching this show as a kid, but honestly don’t recall if I’d seen it when it first aired, back in 1967, or later, but I do remember watching the show. The Invaders was/is (like every alien show is) about aliens from another planet coming to ours. To take us over. They take on human form and disappear in a blaze of red when killed. Same old, same old…but I liked Roy Thinnes (as “David Vincent,” an architect) and the really cool UFO the aliens flew in! As a kid I was all about spacecraft and aircraft models (okay, and monsters, too…). As I was creating the first draft of Psychic, back in 1994/2000, and was writing about Travis Norton, one of my remote viewer characters, the model just came to mind when I started going down that “what’s happened to my life” reminiscing with Travis. I started thinking about “being a kid,” and the loss of that naïveté…one thing led to another…and I dug out that model I had stuffed away in a closet. Next thing you know, it’s been nicely incorporated into the story, inner “compartmentalized” UFO sections (and inch-tall “space babe”) and all.

It’s kinda like the “where do your ideas come from?” question.

Everywhere.

When you’re writing, you’re not always (at least for me) consciously thinking I should incorporate “this” or “that.” The stuff just flows out your fingertips and onto the page. Sometimes even genuinely surprises you. Sure, there are times I consciously want and need to add something, but for all the minutiae of the story it all just genuinely flows out “organically.”

The alien invaders UFO model I have is one of several variants created over the years, some made as recent as 2003. I believe mine must be the 1975, Aurora #256, version, given the time I was actively buying and making models…and that that box seems the closest to what I remember having had…color scheme and intensity and all. If I’m wrong, it would most likely be the 1979 version, but I doubt this; I was pretty much done with model building by that time….

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