One Terran Meteor crew in The People Of The Wind was two human beings and a Cynthian.
The new team in The Game Of Empire is a human being, a Wodenite and a Tigery.
A Ranger team in "Starfog," is one human being and his conscious ship-computer.
A Coordination Service crew in "The Pirate," in Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History, is one human being and a Reardonite.
Lessons (if any):
each of these teams has at least one human being;
it is good to mix species in teams in sf stories;
fictional species can be re-deployed to good effect.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
That makes sense to me, team members of different species will, hopefully, complement/supplement each other, adding strengths and correcting weaknesses.
But I still remain skeptical of true AIs being likely!
Ad astra! Sean
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