Uplift Universe - Image Entry: David Harrington

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It looks like everyone is a winner this time round, so here we go. Good luck to everyone.

I won't have time to read the books and am not so keen on doing anthropomorphised aliens, so I'm taking this passage from David Brin's Sundiver book for my main inspiration.

"Jacob adjusted his perspective and suddenly one of the "indoor shrubs" was Fagin. The old Kanten's silver-tipped foliage tinkled softly as if there were a breeze.

Jacob smiled. Fagin presented a problem whenever they met. With humanoids, one looked for a face, or something that served the same purpose. Usually it took only a little time to find a place in an alien's strange features on which to focus.

There was almost always a part of the anatomy that one learned to address as the seat of another awareness. Among humans and very often among E.T.'s, this focus was in the eyes.

A Kanten has no eyes. Jacob guessed that the bright silver objects that made the sound of tiny sleigh bells were Fagin's light receptors. If so, it still didn't help. One had to look at the whole of Fagin, not at some cusp of the ego. It made Jacob wonder which was the larger improbability: that he liked the alien despite this handicap, or that he still felt uneasy with him despite years of friendship."


So, to start with I'm thinking a large agave, snail eyes, bouncy castlesquery, and a man in a space suit.

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