Re: I'm new!

Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote;
>
> ... --it's a very difficult
> balance between portraying aliens who seem to have motive but may also
> seem "too human," and portraying aliens who really seem alien but may be
> incomprehensible or boring to the all-too-human reader.  A story that I
> think succeeds in this, and that you might like if you can find it, is
> Terry Carr's "The Dance of the Changer and the Three."  You see hints of
> alien motivations, but they never come clear--in human terms.
    I love that story, and for the same reasons.  I almost get it.  It
resonates with me without my being able to tell exactly why.  It's the kind
of alienness I'm trying to capture with the gladifers (the speakers of
Gladilatian).  The gladifers are not as strange on the surface as the
Loarra, but, hopefully, the details of their ways will resonate with my
readers in ways reminicient of the dance.

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
             homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm
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