*Still an excellent book, and I’m led to expect that as I read more I’ll find that they question their tendency to shoot all the aliens.
Oh, yes.
And I'm sure you could come up with some kind of plot about humans and Na'vi saving Pandora or Earth that had explosions. I learned that lesson from, of all places, Anne McCaffrey, who can turn 'fungus infestation from space' into an excuse to have fire-breathing dragons flying about.
(And at least Data with Hollywood Amnesia could be explained as how his memories are stored.)
And now I kind of want to go back and do science words with my conlang. I once saw a piece on atomic physics written entirely using non-Latin/Greek words, inventing words for the elements, so it's interesting. I'd have to decide if I should just translate the element roots that aren't 'name it after something/someone cool', or if I can come up with other interesting names.
(I have the same thing with get_medieval, which is about aliens who end up in 12th century France -- whether the characters just use the alien-speak words when they eventually have to explain technology to the natives, or if they try to invent words from French and Latin.)
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Oh, yes.
And I'm sure you could come up with some kind of plot about humans and Na'vi saving Pandora or Earth that had explosions. I learned that lesson from, of all places, Anne McCaffrey, who can turn 'fungus infestation from space' into an excuse to have fire-breathing dragons flying about.
(And at least Data with Hollywood Amnesia could be explained as how his memories are stored.)
And now I kind of want to go back and do science words with my conlang. I once saw a piece on atomic physics written entirely using non-Latin/Greek words, inventing words for the elements, so it's interesting. I'd have to decide if I should just translate the element roots that aren't 'name it after something/someone cool', or if I can come up with other interesting names.
(I have the same thing with