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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2878320" data-attributes="member: 19675">Niven does have some non-monolithic aliens out there.  I'd cite them specifically, but I lost about 50% of my Niven collection in a recent move- most of what I have is Known Space stuff and what I've managed to replace (Magic Goes Away stories, Dream Park books, etc.).Baxter does have chapters written from the POV of his aliens.Sorry, but I'm not about to reproduce the POV of several different authors' takes on alien psych in a messageboard post- I have neither the time nor space to do it justice.  Suffice it to say that each of the examples given was from a work of fiction that included chapters from the alien POV.  Some were entirely penned that way.In these works, the alien physiology perforce affected the psychology.  After all, if you are a being whose dimensions can be measured in light years, you may not consider a 2m tall being as even being alive.  If you were alive in the first 1/10000000th of a second of the universe's existence, a creature alive today would seem as inert to you as stone does to us.And, as I recall, Greg Bear's xenophobic Jart don't even exist in only 3 dimensions.  Their mission in life is to preserve everything in reality as an offering to Descendant Command at the end of the universe...a mission akin to storing the entire universe in a glass paperweight.Read it.  Nice story.</blockquote>