/lit/ - Literature

Know what I like about sci-fi?
Every book has you convinced, "Ah, yes, this is how aliens must evolve and act, it makes perfect sense!" and every book is different.
>Read Blindsight
Oh wow, they're just mostly nerves and atp and they don't understand "self" so they're perfect cells for the organism whole.
>Read Project Hail Mary
Ah yes, talking with aliens would be easy! The sound of 2 rocks touching would sound the same on every planet, the footsteps of a predator. So we all hear!

Also I started reading Hail Mary because some anon spoilered You blew out a scab and it almost killed me.
For the entire book I thought the protagonist was going to be talking to a giant cloud, like a whole system was an alien or the whole atmosphere of a planet was an alien. It's still a good book, but...

Any books where the aliens are like that? Gaseous?