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In xenocide, in a sort of passing comment it is said that the buggers resembeled ants just as we(humans) resembel rats and shrews. Now I have several of my own conclusions, for example maybe the earth described in the book is not at all like the earth that we are on now, I mean I realize that it is a fictional earth, but you know what I mean. Maybe they too are alien. or maybe he is speaking of evolution in some odd way. But I am more interested in other peoples speculations.
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Here's my take on that. The only way he can really describe a bugger is to say it looks like an ant. In other terms, there are no words in our language that can accurately describe just what a bugger looks like.
So, since a human bears very little resemblance to a rat, they do have similar features (two legs, two arms, head, two eyes, nose, mouth). Buggers may resemble ants in that they would have similarities, but really are quite different. You dig?
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I always thought the 'humans' in Xenocide were a race of super-shrews. Or, at least, most of the female characters in that book are shrewlike beings.
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