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There's a Polish meme about sci-fi written by Lem vs sci-fi written by Bioware. I don't think it is a known meme. It should be a known meme.
It takes effort to make aliens actually feel alien, and then build a good story around them.
It’s far easier (and possibly more engaging for most people) to make aliens by exaggerating human characteristics, and then have a story about humans facing against their worst or best traits.
But you also don’t want to make aliens too “alien” to where people won’t have any recognition or care of their struggles, personalities, life attributes.
I like “human” aliens, especially if they are portrayed as being very psychologically/culturally different from most humans as a whole, but I also appreciate the truly weird and strange barely recognizable ones.
It takes effort to make aliens actually feel alien, and then build a good story around them.
It’s far easier (and possibly more engaging for most people) to make aliens by exaggerating human characteristics, and then have a story about humans facing against their worst or best traits.
But you also don’t want to make aliens too “alien” to where people won’t have any recognition or care of their struggles, personalities, life attributes.
I like “human” aliens, especially if they are portrayed as being very psychologically/culturally different from most humans as a whole, but I also appreciate the truly weird and strange barely recognizable ones.