Truth of the Divine (Noumena, volume 2) by Lindsay Ellis
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/for-something-pure-and-true
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On Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 8:03:05 AM UTC-6, James Nicoll wrote:
> Truth of the Divine (Noumena, volume 2) by Lindsay Ellis
> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/for-something-pure-and-true

I think I would have to read the book before I could make sense of your review.

Anti-social aliens, with technology far beyond our own...

and, so, because they're anti-social, they are only willing to communicate with
a select few Earth people. As opposed to conquering the Earth and crushing it
under their heels.

But then I've been on a comic book reading binge lately. Perhaps this makes perfect
sense; it's not as if savages like us would have anything they want.

John Savard

In article <2af011ec-330a-4829-8cb6-91f2ce6397c1n@googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>On Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 8:03:05 AM UTC-6, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Truth of the Divine (Noumena, volume 2) by Lindsay Ellis
>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/for-something-pure-and-true
>
>I think I would have to read the book before I could make sense of your review.
>
>Anti-social aliens, with technology far beyond our own...
>
>and, so, because they're anti-social, they are only willing to communicate with
>a select few Earth people. As opposed to conquering the Earth and crushing it
>under their heels.
>
>But then I've been on a comic book reading binge lately. Perhaps this
>makes perfect
>sense; it's not as if savages like us would have anything they want.

There have been several Doctor Who episodes in which the aliens
want our atmosphere, full of tasty toxic chemicals.

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In article <r0C3Gz.1uEB@kithrup.com>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>In article <2af011ec-330a-4829-8cb6-91f2ce6397c1n@googlegroups.com>,
>Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>On Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 8:03:05 AM UTC-6, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> Truth of the Divine (Noumena, volume 2) by Lindsay Ellis
>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/for-something-pure-and-true
>>
>>I think I would have to read the book before I could make sense of your review.
>>
>>Anti-social aliens, with technology far beyond our own...
>>
>>and, so, because they're anti-social, they are only willing to communicate with
>>a select few Earth people. As opposed to conquering the Earth and crushing it
>>under their heels.
>>
>>But then I've been on a comic book reading binge lately. Perhaps this
>>makes perfect
>>sense; it's not as if savages like us would have anything they want.
>
>There have been several Doctor Who episodes in which the aliens
>want our atmosphere, full of tasty toxic chemicals.

In this case, Earth has nothing the aliens cannot get more easily,
closer to home. Having convinced themselves interspecies communication
is impossible, and would only risk cultural contamination if it was
possible, they ignore us. If we somehow drew attention to ourselves,
that might be enough to convince them we were threats to be exterminated.

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On Saturday, 2 October 2021 at 06:15:03 UTC+1, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <2af011ec-330a-4829...@googlegroups.com>,
> Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> >On Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 8:03:05 AM UTC-6, James Nicoll wrote:
> >> Truth of the Divine (Noumena, volume 2) by Lindsay Ellis
> >> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/for-something-pure-and-true
> >
> >I think I would have to read the book before I could make sense of your review.
> >
> >Anti-social aliens, with technology far beyond our own...
> >
> >and, so, because they're anti-social, they are only willing to communicate with
> >a select few Earth people. As opposed to conquering the Earth and crushing it
> >under their heels.
> >
> >But then I've been on a comic book reading binge lately. Perhaps this
> >makes perfect
> >sense; it's not as if savages like us would have anything they want.
> There have been several Doctor Who episodes in which the aliens
> want our atmosphere, full of tasty toxic chemicals.

I've missed some recent episodes, but I think the aliens
typically want Earth's atmosphere to be much more toxic,
to us, than it currently is.

At risk of spoiling a book that is nothing to do with
_Doctor Who_, there were flying aliens that enjoyed
our atmospheric pollutants, and post apocalypse
we were no longer producing enough of it, but they
had some means of conserving the remainder of
the supply. (ROT13, gryrzcnguolfcvqreebovafba)