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james_davis_nicoll (
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http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/3978146.html
Not feeling inspired tonight
From my inbox: A request for the names of (living) SF writers who regularly write about weird or exotic forms of alien life. Suggestions?
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Well, obviously
(Anonymous)
2012-09-28 08:17 am (UTC)
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Iain M. Banks
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ffutures.livejournal.com
2012-09-28 08:44 am (UTC)
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John Varley
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kjn
2012-09-28 08:44 am (UTC)
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Dave Freer.
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(Anonymous)
2012-09-28 10:28 am (UTC)
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Peter Watts
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michaelgr.livejournal.com
2012-09-28 10:34 am (UTC)
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"Regularly" is a stretch, but Rosemary Kirstein has the best damn realistically exotic aliens this side of the millennium.
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thebluerose.livejournal.com
2012-09-28 10:37 am (UTC)
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Julie E Czerneda
Kristine K Rusch
Lee and Miller
China Mieville
Kay Kenyon
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autopope.livejournal.com
2012-09-28 10:43 am (UTC)
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Al Reynolds (at least in some of his work -- the Revelation Space universe is full of 'em).
Iain M. Banks (although they have a worrying tendency to be
either
Star Trek aliens (with latex face bumps)
or
talking squids in gas giants).
Karl Schroeder has some terrestrial-biota-derived but
really
alien stuff in the Virga books.
Are you looking for people who have tried to make their biology plausible, or just LOOK!!! ALIENS!!!1!!?
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krfsm.livejournal.com
2012-09-28 11:18 am (UTC)
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Peter Watts. (
Blindsight
, "The Island", "The Things"...)
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shadesong.livejournal.com
2012-09-28 12:23 pm (UTC)
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haikujaguar
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arielstarshadow.livejournal.com
2012-09-28 03:26 pm (UTC)
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You beat me to it. :)
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brownkitty.livejournal.com
2012-09-28 01:26 pm (UTC)
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Octavia Butler.
Is this a request for aliens as bad guys? Or just aliens in general?
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james-nicoll.livejournal.com
2012-09-28 03:08 pm (UTC)
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Butler died six years ago.
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jazzfish
2012-09-28 03:01 pm (UTC)
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Amy Thomson.
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(Anonymous)
2012-09-28 03:55 pm (UTC)
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Cherryh, particularly in the Chanur books: stsho, knnn, t'ca, hani, kif etc. Plus the atevi, majat, calibans, nighthorses, ...
-- Paul Clarke
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(Anonymous)
2012-09-28 10:08 pm (UTC)
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Niven. Whatever you might think of his aliens' psyches, he at least avoids the vertebrate chauvinism common in the field.
[bandersnatchi, outsiders, Puppeteers, kzinti, grogs, slavers, moties, ...]
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rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com
2012-09-28 06:51 pm (UTC)
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Gwendolyn Clare seems to be doing short stories on the subject. And Mercurio D. Rivera.
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Well, obviously
(Anonymous) 2012-09-28 08:17 am (UTC)(link)no subject
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Kristine K Rusch
Lee and Miller
China Mieville
Kay Kenyon
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Iain M. Banks (although they have a worrying tendency to be either Star Trek aliens (with latex face bumps) or talking squids in gas giants).
Karl Schroeder has some terrestrial-biota-derived but really alien stuff in the Virga books.
Are you looking for people who have tried to make their biology plausible, or just LOOK!!! ALIENS!!!1!!?
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Is this a request for aliens as bad guys? Or just aliens in general?
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(Anonymous) 2012-09-28 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)-- Paul Clarke
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(Anonymous) 2012-09-28 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)[bandersnatchi, outsiders, Puppeteers, kzinti, grogs, slavers, moties, ...]
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