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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5636638" data-attributes="member: 19675">I agree about the literature- looking beyong JRRT or D&D fiction, you find remarkably human species all over Sci-Fi and fantasy, from the great names of the genre, like Asimov, Niven, Cherryh, Brin, Bear and so forth.*On the surface, at least.But again, when you go beyond that surface and really analyze what is written there, you begin to see the deep differences their minds MUST have to live the way they do.  Even the miners of Coober Peady see more sunlight than most Dwarves, and welcome it.* Some of those- Asimov most notably- have written little forwards to their stories of their truly alien beings about how and why the author is presenting such beings in such a human fashion.  Namely, to keep them accessible to the reader.</blockquote>