Publisher's Synopsis
International Amazon Science Fiction BestsellerA Unique First Contact Novel from the Point-of-View of the Aliens. 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 escapes the encounter unchanged.PRAISE FOR TRAVELING IN SPACE
"Traveling in Space's humor and refreshing perspective is thoroughly enjoyable" - Diane Ackerman, New York Times bestselling author of The Zookeeper's Wife and A Natural History of the Senses.
"Many of the aliens' encounters with human beings are downright funny...much to think about, and I'm sure that Traveling in Space will play on my mind for some time to come" - Russell Blackford, author of Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination.
"A deadpan, laugh-out-loud look at first contact told from the alien POV (with aliens that are as messed up as the rest of us). Recommended!" - Stephen Webb, physicist, author of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life."
"Superbly entertaining and unique...thought-provoking." - The Mindquest Review of Books
"A unique spin of science fiction... With much humor and much to think about...not to be overlooked"- Midwest Book Review.
