![]() ![]() ![]() Any space-dwelling lifeform is likely to have an interesting and important relationship with interstellar gas, whether it uses gas as an environmental medium, internalizes it, or even externalizes it. ![]() I’m not saying that our creativity should be bound by logic, rather that the genre compels us to use logic for creative ends.īut not all depictions of so-called “gaseous lifeforms” are ridiculous, just the ones composed entirely of gas. And I think science fiction writers really should strive towards some kind of sense making. Just because Star Trek did it, doesn’t mean it makes any kind of logical sense. It’s not that I want to discourage writers from portraying unusual and creative types of alien life in their fiction, it’s just that I find the notion of a creature made of gas to be implausible, and I’d like to encourage science fiction writers to think logically about the aliens they create before blindly walking into the valley of tropes. In an article I published yesterday, I expressed why I think the idea of “gaseous lifeforms” is silly. ![]()
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