Ep 105 - The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
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Sci-Fi and the Alien Culture
"I think sci-fi can explore because it doesn't have to deal with like thousands of years of baggage that human life carries on with it," he says. "If you if you kind of create a species from whole cloth you can design their cultural heritage and cultural morays in a way that are similar enough to ours but then tweak them so that they make us uncomfortable yeah definitely like the dark mirror or whatever precisely that you want"
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