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Greg Bear did this already. Multiple times.

He should join the club. Charles Stross and Vernor Vinge are getting lonely in the clubroom.

They might start making out. *Nobody* wants that.

Thanks for the suggestions.  Time to get mindfucked.

One thing that always annoys me about science fiction involving aliens is the depiction of aliens as simply being humans with differently-colored skin.  Even when book/movie/show creators go out of their way to make the aliens "weird," most times they still have a head and Earth-style limbs.  I want some good sci-fi examples of really, REALLY weird aliens, ones that have a completely different biology/evolutionary past, different senses, incomprehensible projections into dimensions humans can't see, etc.  I thought the movie Contact was going this way but the ending was kind of a cop-out in terms of actually explaining it.  Nerds of PD let me see some recommendations.

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I was taking a crap in a Borders the other day.  Most of the wall was taken up by a big multi-person religious debate.  Some, of course, were "Jesus is your only path to salvation, accept him or burn in hell!" followed by "There's no evidence, bad things have been done in the name of religion, etc."  It was probably the biggest ongoing debate I've seen in a bathroom stall.

Also hidden among these paragraphs was "Heisenberg may have shit here."  I may have laughed out loud at that one.

"I Am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpsbj0OoeNo&feature=related

Maybe these kids should've waited a few years to hone their skills before getting into music...