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The Dark Light Years
The Dark Light Years | Brian W. Aldiss
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What would intelligent life?forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures on six legs that wallow in their own excrement? Upon first contact with the Utod intelligent, pacifist beings who feel no painmankind instantly views these aliens as animals because of their unhygienic customs. This leads to the slaughter, capture, and dissection of the Utod. But when one explorer recognizes the intelligence behind their habits, he must reevaluate what it actually means to be intelligent.
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The Dark Light Years | Brian W. Aldiss
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“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.”