TRAVELING IN SPACE
by Steven Paul Leiva
A unique science fiction first contact novel from the point-of-view of the aliens. a 21st Century Gulliver’s Travels with Homo sapiens as the Lilliputians.
The last thing the factfinders — who call themselves Life — expected to find while traveling in space in The Curious on a mission from their planet, The Living World, was other life. But one day they stumble upon the third planet out from a backwater sun and find it teeming with a vast diversity of life including one sentient and cognizant, if primitive, species that they dub: Otherlife.
Being not only from The Curious but inherently curious themselves they begin to study the Otherlife and their alien culture, discovering such strange things as: marriage, intoxicating drinks, weapons of minor and mass destruction, the gleeful inhaling of toxic substances, two-parent families, layered language, genocide, non-nude bathing, and — the strangest thing of all — religion.
This first contact between Life and Otherlife, disconcerting for both, has moments of humor and moments of horror — and neither escape the encounter unchanged.
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