9780898797060

Aliens and Alien Societies

Stanley Schmidt

ISBN 10: 0898797063 / 0-89879-706-3
ISBN 13: 9780898797060
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
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Stanley Schmidt guides you toward a better understanding of our universe to create beings who will live in your science fiction. Aliens and Alien Societies explains science to help you make your fiction plausible. You'll avoid bringing characters from solar systems unlikely to support life. Discover the galaxy's vastness and imagine the technology needed to cross it. Put biochemistry on your side to put viable creatures on your pages. Learn how engineering shapes life and why this suggests that intelligent inhabitants of other planets might have similarities to humans. Develop well-founded cultures and logical languages. Introduce aliens to people or other aliens. Portray them as individuals, true to their species.


 
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