I read comic strip sf when I was at school. Had the script writers read prose sf? I vaguely remember a scene without being able to remember the title. The authors and artists were not credited then but I would not have remembered either name anyway. Imagine a work of contemporary fiction in which a detective enters a garage, sees a mechanic working on a car and inquires about the car's owner. Now change it to a spaceship yard with the mechanic working on a reusable space vehicle. The detective asks about the owner and is told (something like): "Tall, purple chap with four arms. Said he'd call back tomorrow." That is how Anderson's characters do it. Is that possible? And will anything like it ever happen? Does it happen elsewhere in the galaxy now? Experience suggests that whatever we do discover out there will be very different from anything that we have imagined.
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Kaor, Paul!
But I hope I would love it if something like the multi species interstellar Technic civilization of the Polesotechnic League and Terran Empire did come to exist! And I believe it's more likely than not that other intelligent races exist. It's simply not plausible to think, in a galaxy like ours, with a hundred billion and more stars, that mankind is the only such race.
And we see a bit of that casual, taken for granted acceptance of non humans in Chapter II of THE REBEL WORLDS, as Flandry made his way thru the Naval Intelligence tower of Admiralty Center. Mention was made of how not everybody in the crowds passing in, out, and thru Intelligence HQ were human.
So, yes, I think it's more likely than not that something similar is happening in other parts of the galaxy. Yes, again, something totally unexpected and different might be the actual case.
Ad astra! Sean
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