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What Do Aliens Eat? Food in Sci-Fi and Fantasy

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How to Build a Galactic Commons

"There is so much information conveyed simply in what's on your plate," she says. "In becky's wayfarer books, humans have destroyed the earth, not a huge surprise." But survivors found many different kinds of intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy,. They had already organized a galactic commons. If you're from a species that doesn't eat very often, what's your equivalent of the kitchen table? What activities do you send to your lives around instead?"

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