When extra-terrestrials live on planet Earth, merging in with the local population, they entertain a deeper agenda that is not always to the benefit of the human race. Carol, from a planet twelve light years away, is friends with Dakoda, a Piute Indian. The two live in Las Vegas and the surrounding deserts that have recently turned testing grounds for nuclear weapons. As the nation tests another nuclear weapon, taking the world closer to a nuclear apocalypse, Carol and Dakoda sit at the biker bar, drinking beers and discussing their origins. Carol, a space cadet of planet Nexkar, bootlegs beer and hotdogs for humans stranded on her planet. Redeemed from the clutches of Kaolins, dreaded creatures who inhabit a planet on the extraterrestrial highway between Earth and Nexkar, is an entire community of humans abducted from planet earth. Together with the native population of Nexkar, they await the time when the planet Nexkar takes over Earth and they have the option to move back to Earth. But there are a few obstacles that prevent Nexkar from conquering Earth. The most pressing on the list is the eagerness of Earth’s population to destroy the planet.
‘Extraterrestrial Highway’ is a feature length script by Steve Sorenson. In Steve’s version of planet Earth, cohabited by humans and aliens, the situation appears to be more grim than it is today. With nuclear testing rampant, the world is on the verge of an apocalypse triggered by a silly error or a misunderstanding. Steve creates an entire galaxy of characters on different planets, some of which are light years away from Earth, eyeing the riches of planet earth. Steve also creates a detailed alien world which can look down at humans from a higher pedestal and mock the shortcomings of human civilization. But at the same time, they cannot acknowledge their own flaws. The action packed narrative is rich in its description of the strange worlds the action takes place in. It even providing us with visual references to help grasp abstract concepts like travelling at nine times the speed of light. ‘Extra-terrestrial Highway’ is a trip worth taking to enjoy the wind in your hair and, at the same time, prod you on to contemplate on the purpose of human existence.
‘Extraterrestrial Highway’ reopens the discussion of whether there is life out there? It also makes us ponder if extraterrestrial life is always a threat to us or whether we are a bigger threat to our planet than anything external?
