Humans are Weird: Let's Work It Out

“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.'

If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen.

They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.'

So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

Humans are weird, we all know it. How will this effect how our little green friends see us once the glamour of first contact wears off? 

About the Creators

Betty Adams lives in a particularly damp and remote corner of the Pacific Northwest and, like a hobbit, enjoys visitors so long as she knows them in advance and knows when they are coming. She was born sometime last century and will likely die sometime this century. She works winters on a small organic research farm when not writing and spends most of her time herding eccentric genius scientists (she is absolutely certain cats would be easier) with the help of her Great Pyrenees mix. Summers she spends nomadically wandering the Pacific Northwest in search of material for her stories and a regular paycheck for a biology major (she is reasonably certain those are on the Endangered Species List). She has several works published in the National Park Internal Database which may or may not be classified documents.

Music provided with permission by 

Imari Tones

Willamina Studios

Goals

In the words of that immortal  bard, Samuel J. Snodgrass, "Make 'em laugh!" I wanted to spread some joy in the world and after years of trying this, that, and the other I discovered I had a talent for pointing out the absurdity inherent in the everyday life of humanity. 

If you are looking for glorious space opera, if you are looking for battleships the size of planets obliterating the stars, if you are looking for ascended beings who wisely guide a growing humanity,  look elsewhere my friends.  Here you will find absurdity.

Here, the human is not lost, stop asking, they will get back to base soon enough. Here, an uneasy alien learns the difference between schadenfreude and malice. Here, the human politely but firmly requests that you do not throw off their groove. 

Here aliens learn the meaning of "enough C4"

Here one human delightedly tests his new bullwhip.

Here Monty Python meets Star Trek. 

Here I make 'em laugh! 

Your contribution will bring that laughter to fruition. I will publish a paperback version and an electronic version of 48,000 words of the fully edited  and compiled works and 12,000 previous unseen words. My goal is to write full time and if we meet the stretch goals I will be able to do that. 

Imagine a cozy cabin in the woods. Just the author, a big old dog, a cup of tea sending a tendril of steam into the air, and the steady tic-tic-tacing of the keyboard churning out more stories for you to read. You cannot find me. You cannot trace me. But you will get the fruit of my labors on a regular basis! 

You will laugh! 

What We Need & What You Get

• Break it down for folks in more detail:
• We need to pay the printers. That is going to cost around $1500
• We need to pay shipping and fulfillment which will cost another $1000
• We are going to fund the art, editing, and various costs of the next book in the series which will be another $1500 before printing begins.  
• The author would also like to eat occasionally thus the final $1000.
• You get laughter! Joy! That special feeling you get when you find that package you have been waiting for sitting on your front step! The first perk is our chuckle-inducing E-book.  The second perk is a paperback. If we get to the stretch goals we will look at things like stickers, a paperback graphic novel style stats book for each sapient species, all with the fantastic original art commissioned just for this project, but the big stretch goal is. 
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• $10,000 A fully sound engineered by professionals audiobook version. 
• $25,000 I give up my day job and write full time. This means a novel telling the story of Azure Seventh Flap and how humans and their doggo friends saved the day on the deadliest world ever explored by the Space Rangers! 
• Goals aside, the books will be printed as long as we hit $2000

The Impact

Right now I am that author working a day job and squeezing in writing between gigs. Funding this will enable me to achieve my goal of a little cabin out in the woods with a full time career making people laugh through my written words. Funding this will enable me to turn tea into joy as well as putting food on the table of several printers, editors, artists, and ….what do you call fulfillment service types? 

For as long as humanity has had records we have recorded two things. Humans desperately need a laugh, and humans are the things most worth laughing at. I offer up this plate of wholesome laughter, hopping to make your day a little easier. This is my bison sketched on the wall of my cave, my etchings on the Rosetta Stone. Let them laugh. 

I have successfully funded and published a full length novel in 2015 "Dying Embers" BE WARNED. That is a very different book if you are curious about it. There is laughter in it, but it is entwined with a broken heart. 

There is so much pain in the world. I can't get rid of the pain, but I can make 'em laugh! and I want to do my small part to make a better world. 

Risks & Challenges

• There will always be risks and challenges when publishing a book. We might not get funded. A storm might flood the distribution center literally or figuratively. This I can promise you: I will do everything within my power to make sure that this book lands on your doorstep as soon as possible. 
• For example as of the time typing this I have still not come thorugh with the audio book for the last campaign...I am working on it. 
• I have done it before and I will do it again. 
• Other Ways You Can Help
• Some people just can't contribute, but that doesn't mean you can't help:
• Get the word out and make some noise about the campaign. Share the campaign on social media. Tell your Aunt Gertrude about it. Do an interpretive dance about the wrong broom in school! (or don't depending on school tolerance for nonsense). 
• Use the Indiegogo share tools to make your life easier (in relation to this book, Indiegogo makes no promises about the rest of your life)!

Now go buy that book!