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From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Stories About Aliens Posing as Humans
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:24:39 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vseqcf$gao$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>Five SF Stories About Aliens Posing as Humans
>
>Aliens living among us... and vice versa.
>
>https://reactormag.com/five-sf-stories-about-aliens-posing-as-humans/

Posted this on the Reactor site but replying here as well for
completeness:

There are a bunch of stories in Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series
where wizards from other planets disguise themselves to accompany
Nita, Kit, and Dairine on adventures around Long Island (or other
parts of Earth). And there’s that subplot with Dairine and her alien
prince boyfriend which is still unresolved.

Going back a few decades, I would also bring up Julian May’s Saga of
Pliocene Exile (1980-84), written from the perspective of 2112 AD when
Earth is but one planet of the Human Polity of the Galactic Milieu,
but for nearly a century has been sending recidivists through a
one-way time machine -- where it turns out that a race of
intergalactic nonhumans is already in occupation, and the plot
strongly implies that descendants of these people, mating with the
human exiles, survived 6 million years to become our ancestors (and
also the origin of the Tuatha de Danaan). At the climax of book 4, THE
ADVERSARY, the humans and the exotics build a reverse time gate to get
back to -- or in the case of some of the exotics, to escape to --
2112, and the following books (INTERVENTION et seq.) make it clear
that those who returned were somehow reintegrated in modern
society. Unlike the present-day exotics of the Galactic Milieu, the
exotics of 6 million years ago are essentially humanoid in appearance,
except for being very tall and allergic to iron.

-GAWollman

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