chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (06/22/83)
I vote for Piers Anthony's CLUSER series as having the most alien
aliens.
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ARPA: chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relaywdr@security.UUCP (William D Ricker) (06/22/83)
In responce to the article asking for good aliens:
An acquantance of mine, Bob Butler, wrote in the current issue of The
Wild Hunt [the FRP Gaming magazine published by Mark Swanson (Hi
Mark!)] about alien mind-sets. He described an encounter he had had
with a being which thought and argued in entirely different patterns
than he did, and thus they could not communicate.
The entity in question was a philosophy professor who treated all
discourse as syllogism and would attack any discourse not in the form
of a valid syllogism as UNTRUE. He graded students not on how well
the chose positions or how convincing they could be but on how well
they could argue a position using oral formal login.
Bob, being interested in xenosociology, views this episode as a model
Alien Encounter, and apparently uses it to build alien mindsets for
fantastic and SF-ish entities in his role playing games.
Bill Ricker
(617)271-3725 MS k203, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, 01730
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