Ydwyr, a Merseian in A Circus of Hells, has studied paranormal phenomena among primitive races so I checked whether he had investigated any of their attempts to communicate with their dead but I had been thinking of an alien in a Larry Niven story:
"'When I thought to talk to their ghosts, there was nothing, though I used their own techniques.'"
-Larry Niven, "Cautionary Tales" IN Niven, Convergent Series (New York, 1979), pp. 177-181 AT p. 180.
Maybe ghosts only speak with living members of their own species?
We have mentioned more than once that Dominic Flandry asks his murdered fiancee for a sign.
Contact with the dead is possible in the goetic universe which, like the Technic History timeline, has access to the Old Phoenix.
4 comments:
"Fictional extraterrestrial sophont cultures and the concept of the afterlife," by Shackley?
Could be interesting reading. ;)
Kaor, Paul!
Of course! I would expect humans on planets they colonized to eventually have their own ghosts stories.
Ad astra! Sean
And as Anderson suggested in one of the Rustum-verse stories, intelligent aliens might find a way to take advantage of that reality. ;)
Kaor, Dave!
Ah, thinking of how aliens manipulated human legends in "The Queen of Air and Darkness"!
Ad astra! Sean
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