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From: joe@cvl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Aliens
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Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 10:44:34 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 21 10:44:34 1983
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I finally got around to reading The Mote in God's Eye.  While I enjoyed
the book a great deal, after I finished it I was struck by something.
The protrayal of the Moties by Niven & Pournelle fails (for me, at
least) in one important respect:  they are too human.  This started me
thinking about other portrayals of aliens in sf, and the extent to
which the author actually forces on the reader the realization that the
creatures being described are completely foreign to our way of thinking.

Does anyone have any nominations for especially alien aliens?  I'd be
interested in what others think about this.

joe