Seth Howard
Seth Howard asked Robert Reed:

How do manage to come up with so many imaginative alien races?

Robert Reed Maybe because I have an odd enthusiasm for life. Animal, plant. And lately, slime molds. This gives me a working knowledge for crafting organisms out of the aether. And too, I've practiced delivering just enough detail in a bare minimum of words to make it seem as if I really know what these critters are like. I don't. My most familiar aliens -- the harum-scarums -- are just big blustery characters full of unknowns. I don't know their minds, don't understand their curses. And I've never tried to learn the two-stomp greeting, should they ever show up at my front door.

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