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I know this is a long shot, but if anyone can help I would be forever grateful. I am looking for a science fiction book from perhaps the late 80s (could be older) in which scientists projected their consciousness into alien civilizations to study and live among them sometimes for years at a time. The book covers several different alien species, and the trials and tribulations of the hostile alien environments. I remember one species in particular in which the male carried the babies.
in which scientists projected their consciousness into alien civilizations to study and live among them sometimes for years at a time.
Hmmm, the James Cameron movie Avatar?
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I remember one species in particular in which the male carried the babies.
Any seahorse-based society.
or
Ursula K LeGuin's The Left hand of Darkness? The society is composed of 'ambisexuals', where a hormonial cycle allows a person to be either gender during the reproductive cycle. You may be male this year and female the next. In humans, sometimes female roommates syncronize their menstral cycles - in TLHofD, being in confined quarters will cause phermones from A to force B to become the female - i.e., "I will make you my btch". or "Be the man I need you to be".
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Thank you both for your responses. I have thought about that book occasionally for 30 years, and it drives me crazy that I can't remember more about it. The Left Hand of Darkness looks interesting, and I may add it to my good reads shelf!
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Is it Minds Eye?
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not sure of the title but it sounds like something from Hal Clement
Pretty sure Minds Eye is not it as it's more contemporary. Hal Clement is a good find! Thank you both.
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