Return from Outer Space

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a gift to a sci-fi writer?

Gwen leaves on a journey into space in search of intelligent life. It involves Gwen (and crew) being placed in a cryo state for some time.

Gwen's spose (Max? Maxine?) patiently waits, remaining faithful (visits to Literotica for self-relief aren't cheating, right?). unti;l one day, they are sadly informed that all contact is lost and Gwen is presumed dead.

So, Max(ine) finds a new lover/spouse.

All is oood until one day when Gwen unexpectedly returns...

 

[Shade333]

a gift to a sci-fi writer?

Gwen leaves on a journey into space in search of intelligent life. It involves Gwen (and crew) being placed in a cryo state for some time.

Gwen's spose (Max? Maxine?) patiently waits, remaining faithful (visits to Literotica for self-relief aren't cheating, right?). unti;l one day, they are sadly informed that all contact is lost and Gwen is presumed dead.

So, Max(ine) finds a new lover/spouse.

All is oood until one day when Gwen unexpectedly returns...

Perhaps Maxine's new lover is a man? Or Max's new lover is a man?

 

[Hypoxia]

You can go historical, not SciFi, with New England whalers being out on the hunt for up to four years, with faithful-ish wives awaiting them back home.

One returning ship brings false news that the Corinthian was lost with all hands. All the widows, some of whom have kept each other company, seek and find new partners. A year or more later, the Corinthian sails in and the 85 crewmen head to their homes and wives, now occupied by others.

What ensues? The historical record can be our guide and/or we need merely imagine. Tentacle monsters need not apply.

 

[Carnevil9]

Reverse the sexes and you have an old Cary Grant movie, "My Favorite Wife."

 

[LupusDei]

Me likes to drop a link to this here:

Allegorical nudity, tolerance and alien morality

The ideas could be adaptable.

Perhaps Gwen was part of crew of the experimental warp ship sent to investigate what appeared to be contact between our automated probe and similar of someone else. The information initially exchanged may even be a key directly enabling the new design, but dialogue over more than ten lightyears is so slow it's almost impossible. And, it seems we are discovering them, not the other way around (well, it's to be discovered it's not that simple).

Perhaps Max/Maxine since have adult children or grandchildren, now closer in age to the trawler who seemingly haven't aged if not gone backwards in apparent age, thanks to alien medicine. And aliens she had met, indeed, in surprise to anyone discovering the alien society includes undoubtedly authentic humans as part of it, and they're welcoming and friendly, and sure there's potential for mutual benefit -- combining alien biological expertise with earthlings cybernetics and mathematics. They even outright offer to join a colonization project already underway, but understandably would prefer it to be on their terms. Perhaps she even brings some of her new friends back (including a minivan sized tentacles wielding lobster as the official envoy)?

Ah, a relatively minor detail against all that, the alien humans not only don't seem to have concept of casual clothing worn for modesty, but even find it offensive. Its not really clear why, it's something about aggression (e.g. all clothes is armor), trust, honesty and even health in a round about way (e.g. one must see you aren't hiding parasitic fungus), or something such. Well, perhaps somewhat understandable literally living within guts of alive alien structures.

Gwen had well assimilated in the hive in her time over there. She now tries to readjust to Earth norms (with doesn't seem to have much changed), but it's not easy as she is now seen more as part of the aliens, and many not only encourage her to continue to embrace alien culture -- including nudity, but in name of tolerance and collaboration even feel a need to demonstrate attempts to try it themselves in her presence. Including, one or more of her old lover's progeny.

 

[jaF0]

Submitted for your consideration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parallel

On return, is Earth really Earth? The same Earth? Max? Gwen? The same, or ... ?

 

[AvroAnson]

True story: An English couple who had set up a mission school in New Guinea were fleeing south in late December 1941. Women and children were evacuated first. As he put his wife on the airplane, the husband asked the pilot, whom they both knew from his job flying supplies into the town, to "look after her."

The wife had gotten as far south as Pom City when the news came in January that her husband had been onboard a subsequent aircraft that was shot down departing Lae, and died in the crash. The wife was understandably distraught. Their friend, the pilot, comforted the young widow as best he could. Several months later they married.

Over a year after he had put his wife on the airplane the husband arrived in Papua in a dugout canoe, having sailed it around the island. Mostly at night since it was during the middle of a war. He had been "bumped" from the "last plane out," by some big-shot. He managed to find his wife, and their friend, who was now her new husband.

It wasn't the greeting received by Captain Walker in 'Tommy.' They were both very happy that he was alive and had made it back. When my mother knew them in the 1950s, they were all living together openly but discretely in the Kimberley. Everyone just accepted it as a unique solution to a unique situation.

 

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.... Tentacle monsters need not apply.

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