tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34970069.post7667662206464279591..comments2024-03-28T00:05:38.435-07:00Comments on Biology in Science Fiction: How alien should science fiction aliens be?Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34970069.post-1041935057464989312011-10-13T20:53:37.190-07:002011-10-13T20:53:37.190-07:00Heinlein's Red Planet does an even better job ...Heinlein's Red Planet does an even better job of illustrating the same martians in 'Stranger...' written for a younger audience but the concepts he throws out there are anything but juvenile. "Talking to a martian is like talking to an echo, you don't get an arguement but you don't get results either," Doc McRae, Red Planet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34970069.post-45060245996371965542011-08-11T11:29:44.249-07:002011-08-11T11:29:44.249-07:00The Martians in Stranger in a Strange Land suit my...The Martians in Stranger in a Strange Land suit my needs for truly alien aliens. That Heinlein gives the reader most of the information about them through Smith, a human raised by Martians, is a pretty brilliant way to convey an incomplete understanding through a mediator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34970069.post-49736094755843420032008-01-30T09:26:00.000-08:002008-01-30T09:26:00.000-08:00I always wonder how intelligent beings would behav...I always wonder how intelligent beings would behave if their life histories were very different from ours. For example, if each individual could produce hundreds of offspring or lifespan was much longer or shorter or sex ratio was far from 50:50 or all were hermaphrodites or females were much bigger than males. We know these are all possible, because they exist in other species on earth. I've Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16918031346237838002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34970069.post-37354565624627103982008-01-24T18:15:00.000-08:002008-01-24T18:15:00.000-08:00In the backdrop of above interesting narrative p...In the backdrop of above interesting narrative please consider this too from Brain Aldis in his magnum opus -Trillion year Spree-<BR/>" Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe .........."<BR/>thanks for this erudite write- up ,Peggy!Arvind Mishrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02231261732951391013noreply@blogger.com