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technology or civilization doesn't require our recognition, it exists or not regardless. Our combustion-based technology is rather a fluke of having a huge amo
by fouc 5y ago
technology or civilization doesn't require our recognition, it exists or not regardless.
Our combustion-based technology is rather a fluke of having a huge amount of one-time crude oil reserves. Other planets won't necessarily have that.
- asymptosis 5y agoWe're talking about fiction. If you can't recognize it as technology or civilization, how do you plan to write about it? As for combustion, indeed, other planets may not have it. So how do you propose that they would start to develop a technology which would lead to building spaceships?
- uncletaco 5y agoThis was not a problem in Solaris, Annihilation, or Story of Your Life. Some stories very much are about aliens who use tech or have civilizations that are very very alien to us.
- filoeleven 5y agoChildren of Ruin does this quite well also.
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