+1 on Xenogenesis, and on China Mieville (Embassytown for aliens imagined in detail, the Bas-Lag trilogy for fantasy with interesting non-Tolkienian species). Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson does a deep dive imagining alien video games.
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Also +1 to Iain M Banks; Excession has very well-imagined non-humans (both the Culture's AI ships and the Affront, who are probably the my favorite evil space orcs); Player of Games has detailed but somewhat less alien-feeling alien society.
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idk the Embassytown and linguistics multi temporal alien movie were p cool
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That's two for Embassytown which I hadn't heard of until today... (Arrival was great!)
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the dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
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Hm. Peter Watts' scramblers from "Blindsight"? Not silicon, but not conscious either. And every Jack Vance alien society is a gem and a treasure.
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I don't know any of that stuff, thanks!
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Solaris, maybe. Or Embassytown.
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Haven't seen either, thanks!
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