Excellent suggestion! The Mote in God's Eye is a classic. I really love the whole "...and on the gripping hand, as the Moties would say..." phrasing that came from that book :D
Yeah the alien race was just so real to me the first time I read it, not particularly in how their society was structured, or their biology or anything else, but just how that world was relayed to the reader made that universe so much more real to me than many other first contact stories.
Excellent suggestion! The Mote in God's Eye is a classic. I really love the whole "...and on the gripping hand, as the Moties would say..." phrasing that came from that book :D
Yeah the alien race was just so real to me the first time I read it, not particularly in how their society was structured, or their biology or anything else, but just how that world was relayed to the reader made that universe so much more real to me than many other first contact stories.
How rapidly everyone felt like friends.