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Fifty Shades of Alien Grey Matter– fi to sci fi, part 2

FROM SCIENCE TO SCIENCE FICTION

This series, see part 1, gleans from Martin Kottmeyer’s articles “Varicose Brains, Part 1: Entering a Grey Area,” “Varicose Brains, Part 2: Heading Towards the Future” and “Varicose Brains, Part 3: Headhunt,” Magonia. I will attempt to keep things chronologically. Following I will relate some of the details specifically relevant to the large headed small bodies grey alien archetype in general. These will be from early scientific speculation which lead to early and ongoing science fiction.

Of course, this is not a comprehensive list as, for example, comic books (and many others from fiction to non-fiction) have been saturated with aliens for decades. In that regard, many of the images I collected and posted as the original Fifty Shades of Grey article (see slide show of images at the end of this article).

1900s AD
1901 AD, from H.G. Wells’ “First Men in the Moon”:

His brain grows, or at least the mathematical faculties of his brain grows, and the rest of him only so much as is necessary to sustain this essential part of him…they bulge ever larger and seem to suck all life and vigour from the rest of the frame. His limbs shrivel, his heart and digestive organs diminish, his insect face hidden under its bulging contours…his deepest emotion is the evolution of a novel computation.

Kottmeyer adds:

Ruling all was the Grand Lunar. Resembling a small cloud, it had a brain case measuring many yards in diameter and was tended by a number of body servants who sustained him. It has intense staring eyes. He eventually saw the dwarfed little body, white, with shrivelled limbs and ineffectual tentacles. “It was great. It was pitiful.

1901 AD, Eden Phillpotts’ “A Story Without an End” envisages that “Future man turns out to be cone-heads. The cone-like head extends three-feet above the face. His is pink, pliable, has gills, wings, is telepathic and subsists on odours.”

1908 AD, George Raffalovitch’s “Planetary Journeys and Earthly Sketches” contains a story titled “Trip to a Planet” which describes a “hairless, macrocephalic [excessively large head] entities in billowing robes are floating above a field and communicating to each other by telepathy.”

1909 AD, James Alexander’s “The Lunarian Professor”:

…has the narrator on a fishing trip when he encounters a lunarian…It is humanoid with a large, globular head and huge eyes. It also has six wings of various sizes. He got here by manipulation of gravitation…Around the time we develop the ability to choose the sex of children, the Lunarians plan to intervene and enforce the creation of a third sex that is neuter. It will be more intelligent and less passionate. The resemblance to modern ufology’s Hybrid Program is hard to miss…
The Lunarian reveals that by the tenth millennium mankind will be short, large-headed, toothless, and nearly bald. By the hundredth millennium, he shrinks even more and will have no digestive system. The umbilical cord stays after birth and machines infuse nutrition into the creature. It has long arms, but no ears, teeth, or toes.

1910s AD
1911 AD, James Beresford’s “The Hampdenshire Wonder”:

…describes the childhood of a future man born to normal parents by apparently spontaneous mutation. The child has a large, bald head…

The same year, William Greene’s “The Savage Strain”:

…envisions North Americans as shorter and weaker in the year 2410, but with a more developed mental ability.

1915 AD, Speculating, Harry Keeler “accepts the notion of larger heads and punier bodies for the year 3221” within his book “John Jones’s Dollar.”

1918 AD, In Aleksandr Romanovich Belyayev’s “The Struggle in Space: Red Dream, Soviet-American War” humans are speculated to have “degenerated to pot-bellied, spindle-legged, bulb-heads and use genetic engineering to create monstrous man-machine combinations.”

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