[ SECRET POST #2545 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2545 ⌋

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Comments

Favourite Alien Mindset

[(Anonymous)]

Tell me about your favorite alien mindset F!S. :)

How was it alien? Did what ever the author was trying to do to make the alien seem different to humanity work? If you meet this species/robot/whatever would you be able to recognise that they operate on an entirely different mindset instead of thinking that they are just humans with funny bits.

I'm always impressed when 'The Other' in books is actually The Other. Something that fails often unfortunately.

Re: Favourite Alien Mindset

[(Anonymous)]

I like when aliens don't use a written or verbal language to communicate.

CJ Cherryh

[(Anonymous)]

...does great aliens in general. I always loved the 'Chanur' novels in large part because they so deftly made the human seem bizarre and alien.

Also because they're felinoid, the different physical responses--tunnel-vision narrowing when they're on the hunt, trying to diplomatically keep claws sheathed, submissive behavior, importance of ears.... I also liked that it was the women who went out and did stuff, while the men were assumed to be unable to control their emotions and so were coddled and largely useful for looking pretty and making babies.

Re: CJ Cherryh

[grackle]

That's exactly what popped into my head when I saw this question.

Re: Favourite Alien Mindset

[darkmanifest]

Julie Czerneda's aliens always impress me. I don't much like the very human-like members of the Clan, but the other aliens that populate the same universe are really cool and unique, especially the shapeshifters from the Web Shifters trilogy; she makes the perspective of the main character, Esen, easy to relate to while being distinctly inhuman. Her books are also some of the few I've found where the aliens don't automatically have the same male-dominated societies that are the default for mammals on Earth, because many of them aren't mammalian, or don't have dramatic sexual dimophism, assuming they have sexes at all. Really awesome.

Re: Favourite Alien Mindset

[starphotographs]

"So it goes." :)

Re: Favourite Alien Mindset

[blunderbuss]

My favorite was the short story 'They're Made out of Meat' by Terry Bisson, where two aliens tasked with finding and contacting other alien races are horrified to learn that they've found a race of sentitent beings made out of ... MEAT. Eeeeewww!