Comments on: How to Build a Believable Alien http://www.eehills.com/sciencefiction/how-to-build-a-believable-alien/ E. E. Hills Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:16:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.eehills.com/sciencefiction/how-to-build-a-believable-alien/comment-page-1/#comment-9 admin Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:16:59 +0000 http://www.eehills.com/?p=123#comment-9 I'm delighted you found it useful. You are right about the tendency of many authors to treat each species as a single culture, and how unlikely it is that it would actually work out that way. This issue is a bit beyond the scope of this article, but it is an excellent idea for another article. Thank you for the suggestion. I’m delighted you found it useful. You are right about the tendency of many authors to treat each species as a single culture, and how unlikely it is that it would actually work out that way. This issue is a bit beyond the scope of this article, but it is an excellent idea for another article. Thank you for the suggestion.

]]> By: Chris Warren http://www.eehills.com/sciencefiction/how-to-build-a-believable-alien/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Chris Warren Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:53:39 +0000 http://www.eehills.com/?p=123#comment-8 A very interesting article. I don't actually create 'aliens' in the first book of my recent fantasy ntrilogy, Randolph's Challenge Book One - The Pendulum Swings, but I do create other species of humankind and supernatural beings. I think the same advice given here also applies to the characters I create, even if they are not strickly 'alien'. However, there was a point I wanted to add to the useful contents of this article. It is something that occurred to me the other day as I sat at the airport waiting to board my flight to Frankfurt for the Book Fair. I was looking at the people passing by and the range of colours, sizes, physical features, dress, gestures, languages was so diverse that I thought - how can all these variations be from a common ancestor. It led me on to thinking about how we depict aliens in our literature and our films (just take Star Trek as an example) - it is rarely, if ever that a race of aliens are depicted with the wide variety of look and stature that exists in us humans - just a thought. Chris Warren Author and Freelance Writer Randolph's Challenge Book One - The Pendulum Swings A very interesting article. I don’t actually create ‘aliens’ in the first book of my recent fantasy ntrilogy, Randolph’s Challenge Book One – The Pendulum Swings, but I do create other species of humankind and supernatural beings. I think the same advice given here also applies to the characters I create, even if they are not strickly ‘alien’.

However, there was a point I wanted to add to the useful contents of this article. It is something that occurred to me the other day as I sat at the airport waiting to board my flight to Frankfurt for the Book Fair. I was looking at the people passing by and the range of colours, sizes, physical features, dress, gestures, languages was so diverse that I thought – how can all these variations be from a common ancestor. It led me on to thinking about how we depict aliens in our literature and our films (just take Star Trek as an example) – it is rarely, if ever that a race of aliens are depicted with the wide variety of look and stature that exists in us humans – just a thought.

Chris Warren
Author and Freelance Writer
Randolph’s Challenge Book One – The Pendulum Swings

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