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What sci-fi race is the best evar?
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Jian-Mai Ling
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#61 - 2015-03-07 00:03:48 UTC
Pontipines.

Life keeps giving me lemonade.
Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#62 - 2015-03-07 13:46:10 UTC
Jian-Mai Ling wrote:
Pontipines.

That'd be the fantasy, Bob.

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Ria Nieyli
Nieyli Enterprises
When Fleets Collide
#63 - 2015-03-07 18:00:57 UTC
Zerg. They are the perfect species, pretty much.
Amber Kurvora
#64 - 2015-03-08 08:19:04 UTC
Da Orkz for da good fightin'! WAAAAAAAAARGH! (Sponsorned by Pain Doc Grazgul, for all your medical squig needs).
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#65 - 2015-03-08 08:36:37 UTC
I think the responsible thing to do as the mother of this thread is compile the suggestions in the OP. Yeah.

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Tisiphone Dira
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#66 - 2015-03-09 11:20:49 UTC
Gungans

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Lachesiss
Perkone
Caldari State
#67 - 2015-03-09 14:29:46 UTC
The alien from species.

I would be happy as hell with an alien that turns into Natasha Henstridge and wants to have fun Blink

Oh and the alien from Super 8. He was pretty cool

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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#68 - 2015-03-09 14:33:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
Marsha Mallow wrote:
The Centauri, but only because Londo is my favourite character in a sci fi setting. Although he is pretty much human.

Possibly the Pattern Jugglers as a race just because they are enigmatic and don't fit into the humanoid racial template.
I'd mention an Adam Roberts race here from a novel I recently read but it'd ruin the plot, so just read all of his stuff Big smile

Khergit Deserters wrote:
Are those the ones from Ursula LeGuin The Left Hand of Darkness? That book kind of worked my mind over a few times along the way. The people who go into a sort of estrus (kemmer, I think it was called?), and either one can become the male or female. And the outworld ambassador, who had to do a long trek across ice with his local radical political opponent. Who very professionally does what is needed to try to ensure their survival. And then goes into kemmer sex transformation, mid-camping trip....

That book was less "sci-fi" than exploration of a lot of what-ifs of anthropology and psychology. I kind of think only a female writer could conceive of that tale, and tell it in depth. Anyway, not a book you soon forget.

I love her stuff. They are referred to as Gethenians as far as I recall (by the envoy, but they refer to themselves based upon their local area), and they're not really aliens either but a mutation of humanoid which has evolved in response to the climate. Her father was a noted anthropologist and it shows in her works, although she's also a feminist (60s style), buddhist and poet. The Dispossessed is probably my favourite novel. These do have to be read carefully because of when they were written, although she's written some short stories to revisit the settings which are really interesting. I think she tagged the Gethenian one I read as "chance to actually get in the kemmerhouse and have some fun with it".
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
That's one fascinating story and a very believable alien society. My only gripe is that, as far as I remember, LeGuin never explains the origin of that race. Are them true aliens? Modified human? I recall that some of them are "ill" and are locked in a gender, without the transitions, and they're both pitied and reviled as sexual perverts -which infludences how the society perceives the gender-locked human envoys.

I agree that it's the kind of story only a woman could tell in depth.

It might not be explained in the novel itself, but the ambassador is a member of a race known as the Ekumen who seeded various planets with humanoid colonies in the past and then return to see how they have evolved. It is very much a social commentary. Her sci fi stuff generally falls into the same universe, usually called the Hainish cycle.

I used to agree that female writers generally leaned towards that type of narrative until I read some recent stuff by men. Adam Roberts (everything) and Kim Stanley Robinson (The Mars series) really seem to be breaking the mould in the way they write. Definitely worth a look.


Ah, Kim Stanley Robinson and the Mars series. They were one tough read the first time, but after reading them four times I mostly enjoy those books... so I'll give them a fifth read someday. There are many things I don't like of those books* but the trilogy is a master work, well worth reading.


*I am puzzled by the absolute lack of humour, FAI, and I also *hate* Maya Toitovna and could live without knowing Jackie Boone...

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#69 - 2015-03-09 17:21:19 UTC
Amber Kurvora wrote:
Da Orkz for da good fightin'! WAAAAAAAAARGH! (Sponsorned by Pain Doc Grazgul, for all your medical squig needs).


Heresy *BLAM*
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#70 - 2015-03-09 19:53:59 UTC
# 3 goes to Cardassians...gotta love those lovely little reptiloids

# 2 Vorta ...Weyoun is one of my all time favourite characters

#1 Nebari (Farscape)- not those outlaws like Chiana, but the regular, evil, totalitarian mind-control freaks.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Violet Hurst
Fedaya Recon
#71 - 2015-03-10 08:01:47 UTC
Mmrnmhrm
Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#72 - 2015-03-10 13:40:35 UTC
Violet Hurst wrote:
Mmrnmhrm

Surely the Chmmr that resulted were even MOAR better.

Loved Star Control II. Still remember the "Ha...lelujah!" when a Pkunk ship came back.

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Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#73 - 2015-03-11 17:55:43 UTC

Since I'm camping this thread..

Do Cthulhu count? What about Kaiju? And Optimus Prime?



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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#74 - 2015-03-11 23:44:27 UTC
Sibyyl wrote:

Since I'm camping this thread..

Do Cthulhu count? What about Kaiju? And Optimus Prime?




Optimus Prime always counts.

Cthulu was fantasy, but it's up to Rain if that counts.

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Souxie Alduin
Anarchy in the Eve
#75 - 2015-03-16 15:01:37 UTC
^^Cthulhu is an alien.

My favorites:

the Scramblers from 'Blindsight' by Peter Watts. Seriously scary critters.

Space herpes from 'Ice Pirates'.Big smile
jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#76 - 2015-03-16 18:57:43 UTC  |  Edited by: jason hill
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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#77 - 2015-03-16 19:00:06 UTC
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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#78 - 2015-03-16 19:03:14 UTC
meh I was trying to post a sodding link to bloody ewoks but the bloody parsings all screwed up ! meh !Evil