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
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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Player of games was one of my favs.
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(But it's now part of an extremely online experience. @OmanReagan had talked about it a bunch, priming me; then fucking Musk shitposted about it and rehydrated an interest given all the "my dude what are you talking about" responses to him; then I read it.)
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