S.T. Ockenner
Istar
Being a human and being a person are not the same thing. Just because another species thinks similarly to us does not mean the're 'humanized.' If anything, we're 'elfized'!
Being a human and being a person are not the same thing. Just because another species thinks similarly to us does not mean the're 'humanized.' If anything, we're 'elfized'!
Interesting point, and this is a little bit of an obsession with me - to write an alien race profoundly different from our own but also tell an engaging story. I've tried to do that in my next two books, coming out in 2021 and 22.SF provides richer fodder for this topic. There have been some excellent SF stories with an alien viewpoint. But, at least for me, the more successfully alien, the less engaging was the story. Truly alien means I have no point of reference. Honor, love, treachery, hatred, and so on are meaningless terms, or are rendered so differently that they sound nonsensical, not "true."