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We'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 plane
by asymptosis 5y ago
We'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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