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piecheese10
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Eilavamp
Since: Oct, 2014

A book based around the ship that arrives in Earth orbit, full of strange aliens, mostly non-sapient. They're initially regarded as hostile, but a team starts to find out where they're from by reading pictograms on the walls. They turn out to be from a planet with very high winds, to the point where some of the aliens slide around on a curved spike in the middle of their body (they're shaped like starfish), and trees have roots at each end of the trunk to anchor them. I don't know if it's a whole book or a short story, but that's what I remember about it. Anyone remember it/the title?