Alien, I mean really Alien.

[Randallw]

I just finished Pandoras Star by Peter F Hamilton, and the Primes made me think of something.What sort of real Aliens are there in Fiction. It seems to me they go from Anthromorphic aliens, such as in Star Trek where they are all human with funny noses or pointy ears, to Aliens with human motivations like giant cat people or beings that look like whales or elephants that the humans look up to as founts of wisdom. What I want to read of is real Aliens. Theres the Bahgs, ok they are Alien, but they're basically Aliens with a single human emotion, predominantly in races like that its Aliens with one emotion, kill or eat everything else. Are there any real Aliens in Fiction whose behaviour, as well as their physiology, is "Alien" to humans?. I do supppose "real Aliens" would be hard to write. They might be enemies to fight, but an ALien might stop fighting half way through because their thought processes see a reason to stop that we emotional, 3 dimensional humans don't see.

[ March 25, 2004, 06:44: Message edited by: Randallw ]