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Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Dammit, I just did an email interview with an SF magazine in which my answer to the question "If you were to write a love story between a human and an alien, what challenges would they face?" turns into a rant about biochemistry and evolutionary biology, culminating in ...
"The Fermi paradox suggests that we are among the first spacefaring intelligent species to evolve in this galaxy. So it seems likely that any sexy alien I meet will be an extremely intelligent, venomous, tree-dwelling crab."