What's the most imaginative presentation of truly alien life and societies you've read about in scifi? I feel like everything I've read lately is just...silicon. Techno-ascendancy stuff. Aliens as massive compute clusters with very fast clocks. Seems narrow.
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Replying to @generativist
+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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Replying to @badnetworker @generativist
Yes for Embassytown. A more recent book that totally blew me away, Semiosis.
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Replying to @TheOdalisque @generativist
I don't remember how it got there, but Semiosis is on my to-read list.
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Replying to @badnetworker @TheOdalisque
This thread just decided the next several months of my pleasure reading.
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