| ▲ | nosianu 7 hours ago | |
> Good science fiction where the aliens are very alien are hard to come by. Apart from "Solaris", which many probably know because there's been a reasonably well-known movie, I recommend "Fiasco" by the same author, Good science fiction where the aliens are very alien are hard to come by Stanisław Lem. Spoiler: It does not end well. The aliens are too alien, and the humans do what humans often do. | ||
| ▲ | bear8642 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Good science fiction where the aliens are very alien are hard to come by I feel this is one of the reasons I liked Fire upon the Deep with the group mind based Tines | ||
| ▲ | nemosaltat 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
In Shroud, Tchaikovsky does very alien (“real” aliens, not “uplifts”) very well. Anthropocentrically, it does not “end well.” Literarily, it vies for my favorite SciFi read of ‘25. Technically, I read “There Is No Antimemetics Division” last year, but I’d already kind of read it... or at least I think I thought I had. uh uh, uh | ||
| ▲ | thom 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Wang’s Carpets usually comes up alongside Solaris as another example of deliberately alien aliens. | ||