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We come in peace… put your hands up and give all of your minerals

by ilonaandrews on Oct.08, 2009, under Ann Aguirre and Ilona Andrews

So alien lifeforms. They come in all shapes and sizes in SF:

aliens We come in peace... put your hands up and give all of your minerals

So what do you think?  Will they be cute, scary, attractive, or revolting?

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2 Comments for this entry

  • morgan

    I’m betting scary. They wouldn’t necessarily be evil, but they’ll be frightening to us. My bet is that they’ll be a swarm, small and insect-like with a hive mind. They’ll be a strange amalgam of bee, cockroach and mosquito resilient enough to travel from a planet where the insect, not the mammal, reached the highest evolutionary state.

  • Ben

    My guess is they’ll be so different we may have a hard time even recognizing them.

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