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7/1/2025, 6:20:09 PM
>>95992205
My favorite aliens are algae-based. The Pattern Jugglers from the Revelation Space universe by Alastair Reynolds. Or the Kelp from Herbert & Ransom's Destination Void series. The alien manner that they're presented in, with the thought-processes and biology of colonial organisms that aren't an individual self but are the emergent consciousness of an entire ecosystem are brilliant. It ends up being something that we can understand and even relate to while still being genuinely alien.
Somehow I'd read Destination Void, The Jesus Incident and the Lazarus Effect decades ago in the 90s, but only noticed last year that there was a 3rd (fourth-ish) in the series, The Acsencion Factor (3rd-ish since Destination Void isn't exactly part of the Destination Void series).
My favorite aliens are algae-based. The Pattern Jugglers from the Revelation Space universe by Alastair Reynolds. Or the Kelp from Herbert & Ransom's Destination Void series. The alien manner that they're presented in, with the thought-processes and biology of colonial organisms that aren't an individual self but are the emergent consciousness of an entire ecosystem are brilliant. It ends up being something that we can understand and even relate to while still being genuinely alien.
Somehow I'd read Destination Void, The Jesus Incident and the Lazarus Effect decades ago in the 90s, but only noticed last year that there was a 3rd (fourth-ish) in the series, The Acsencion Factor (3rd-ish since Destination Void isn't exactly part of the Destination Void series).
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