Flandry to Kathryn:
"'My business has put me in contact with various breeds. I remain convinced we humans are the weirdest of the lot; but your Didonians come close.'" (p. 473)
Why should human beings be the weirdest? Editor John Campbell wanted them to be not only distinctive but also superior. To avoid conflict with his editor, Asimov invented the humans only galaxy. Anderson's multi-species Technic History is infinitely richer. But I think that any reflective species would think itself the weirdest merely because it knows itself better, from the inside out. Flandry has mere "contact" with many others.
Maybe Aycharaych is the being to ask.?
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Kaor, Paul!
Recall, however, Flandry mentioning in Chapter Five quite a few non-human races thought the human reproductive pattern was obscene. That would count as contributing to why humans could be thought weird!
Ad astra! Sean
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