![]() David Brin however not only gives us an entire, and distinctly alien galactic culture full of races with their own unique ways of acting, speaking and behaving, but even a very earthly race who are far from human. This is actually harder to accomplish than one would think, since simply sticking in a few Viking traditions and Cornish pasties on the forehead, or some squirming tentacles and a propensity for exploding tourist attractions doesn't give that sort of profoundly frightening, slightly off true inhuman thinking that we would expect of a creature from another world. ![]() One thing I really appreciate in science fiction, are aliens who are truly alien. ![]() It bodes well for our future married life that my wife obviously knows me extremely well, since undoubtedly like it I did. ![]() During our honeymoon, one thing my lady and I did was begin reading David Brin's The Uplift War, one of her favourite science fiction books, and one which, she assured me, I'd definitely like. ![]()
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