/lit/ - Literature

>>9868443
Alien communication... have a passing of time, then write that your characters learned to understand basic phrases/sounds. Or have the aliens deploy telepathy to communicate. I've also seen SF authors use translating devices, which is not a far fetched idea as Google translate develops. A future gadget might record conversations of an unknown language and compile probable meanings, presenting them phonetically... although this assumes the aliens are vaguely human/mammalian, and there being universal aspects of language/thought - does Jung's collective unconsciousness exist beyond Terra?

But in an omniscient perspective, just surrounding their text with brackets like this works >>9868462

>>9868632
Gateway by Frederik Pohl, a book about guilt and repressed memories, also has cool space exploration.