Xenofiction

Hi everyone. Are any of you working on xenofiction-related projects? I love a bit of animal/alien mythology and world-building. Watership Down is one of my all-time favourite novels.

It was a fairly big influence on my own work - a ratty sailing odyssey.

Tell me about your work.

Mad rat lady writer: https://www.amazon.com/Ship-Rats-Tale-Heroism-High-ebook/dp/B07DFQJ9RL

In a sense I am, since my main character is a catfolk. I'm not too sure if it counts as xenofiction though since I'm by-and-large not exploring the ramifications of being nonhuman, it's just that he isn't.

"Can't make an omelette without breaking some children." -Bur

Yeah, probably doesn't count unless there's a clear psychological/physiological/cultural differences.

Is your catperson's catness more of an aesthetic quirk?

Mad rat lady writer: https://www.amazon.com/Ship-Rats-Tale-Heroism-High-ebook/dp/B07DFQJ9RL

I'm late to the party. When I started experimenting with writing from the perspective of horses, I took inspiration from:

• the book Black Beauty
• the movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
• the folklore that horses with certain traits are better at noticing vampires than others
• a nightmare I had about an alien blinded in a crash-landing being stalked by Slenderman. The alien managed to prolong her life by gathering and breeding a humongous herd of horses^note somewhere between fifty and five hundred horses, dreams almost never give an exact count to use in repeated Decoy Convoys to get away from him. The tactic finally failed and she got killed, leaving her horses fleeing ownerless and scattering into the wild, and leaving me next on Slenderman's hit-list, just because I'd shown up and witnessed the last Decoy Convoy failing.

So, thanks to all that, certain story arcs in my series of novels include some scenes from the point of view of the mustang descendants of the Touched by Vorlons horses starring in my nightmare.

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.

I love writing about the Venusians, who are plant-like entities that are very different from humans but still want to imitate them... I also think that writing about animals and alien species is refreshing because animals and aliens have very different senses than humans and it boosts creativity.

Edited by sabrina_diamond on Aug 9th 2019 at 1:09:43 AM

In an anime, I'll be the Tsundere Dark Magical Girl who likes purple MY own profile is actually HERE!

Well, I don't know if this counts in this category, but I started working on a story recently...

One where the MC is a scribble (a sentient drawing) discovering its own self-awareness and from there, goes out into the world of dimensions (aka, "our" world) in order to discover "who" or "what" it is supposed to be drawn as. On its journey, it discovers that it's not the only "scribble" (as art is much more than a mere drawing in a notebook) and come to witness of the world of "Art" collides with the world of "Watchers". All due to the existence of mysterious artists known as "Grays", which with their artistic skills, create images called "Dorians" which is artworks capable of interacting with not just the "scribbles" and other "art", but with the objects and people of the "Watcher World" as well, to great devastating effect.

Will the lost "Scribble" discover the purpose of its own existence? Or be erased and reduced into a faint outline by the forces of the world it faces?

Only time will tell.

Does that count as Xenofiction as well?