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Like aliens exploring Earth that kind of stuff

>> No.15638628

my dairy desu

>> No.15638712

>>15638628
Puts a new spin on the idea, but I’m speaking literally not metaphorically

>> No.15638800

>>15638619
Might want to directly ask /sffg/ since they don't often visit outer /lit/.

>> No.15638948

Invader Zim comics

>> No.15639254

It is along time since I read it, but maybe Footfall

>> No.15640376

>>15638619

No. It has never occurred to any science fiction author in the history of the genre to write a story like this. It's too far out there. Which is pretty remarkable since the genre is well over a hundred years old with many thousands of works having been published.

>> No.15640392

an alien wouldn't be speaking / thinking in english or human ways so how would it make sense

>> No.15640561

Is there a book where the aliens are actually good guys, and it explores an alliance that doesn't devolve into warshit?

>> No.15640600

>>15638619
Try Childhood's End

>> No.15641550

>>15638628
lol

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>>15638619
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
Kind of

>> No.15642724

Bound to be more than enough jewish autobiographies out there anon

>> No.15642985

Under the Skin

>> No.15643008

>>15642083
Penguin... easy on the fish

>> No.15643035

>>15638619
read any spanish conquistador book, its the closest most accurate thing as to what that might be like.

>> No.15643118

>>15640376
No, there's a story with the same premise in Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man

>> No.15643136

[Ok, it is called The Concrete Mixer
From The Illustrated Man.
Short story.]

>> No.15643702

>>15638619
Arthur C. Clarke?

>> No.15643739

>>15638619
No anon because its stupid