Joining today: two of the three Brothers Herman, engineer Dave and medical ethicist & philosopher Steven, with all of their knowledge combined 

Xenobiology. Astrobiology. And all of the fictional kinds. The worlds we imagine, define, are teeming to full with strange and unusual life: beings who either don’t follow the rules that we know—or out of necessity create new order in their time. 

But how do you make them seem real, do you ground our encounters with them in the world(s) that you write? How do you know what they think, hear, feel, would convey of their own deep, ineffable mind?

Join us today as we touch on a few of your fictional favorites like the fae, alien kinds, and artificial beings or life that only in the uncanny valley can survive. And the numinous fear, sense of majesty or plain awe that we feel at meeting that which we cannot describe.

- J

Show Notes

Descartes, “I think therefore I am...”

Hobbes defining the second law of motion 

NASA research on exobiology

Tardigrades as Star Trek Discovery power source 

Parasite Eve and mitochondria 

Recapitulation Theory

Wayne Barlowe’s Expedition

Khan Academy on Phenotypic plasticity 

Prometheus and “a wizard did it...”

Lovecraft’s xenophobia

Octavia Butler’s Dawn

John Scalzi, Old Man’s War

The Coldfire Trilogy, by C.S. Friedman

“I have no mouth and I must scream”, by Harlan Ellison 

The convoluted lore of Neon Genesis Evangelion

Lord Dunsany’s Gods of Pegana 

The Uncanny Valley

Dragonriders of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey

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