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About Embracing the Alien
I haven't written a whole lot of classic "space opera," I'm afraid, in part because I have problems believing in the premise that we would ever be able to understand a real alien, much less chat and adventure with aliens. I mean, so far we have been utterly unsuccessful in being able to talk with other Earth species, such as ants or squids, and if we can't talk with species that share our biology, how can we expect to talk to real alien aliens?
"Embracing the Alien," is one of my few space-operas. It was originally published in the November 1992 issue of Analog, and was the cover story for that issue, with a spectacular painting by Bob Eggleton. It made the preliminary ballot for the Nebula award in 1993.