I read these quite a while ago, and I'd like to read them again.
1. This one has been on my mind since this whole covid crap started. It's centered around some organism, possibly extraterrestrial, that attaches itself to humans and takes control over their minds for some nefarious purpose. To combat this, the government mandates that all clothing people wear must be transparent. People willingly comply, basically continuing life naked in see-through clothing. Then, I think, they find a woman walking around with her hand in her opaque purse, and one of these organisms is attached to her hand, so they ban carrying anything that isn't transparent.
2. I've posted this one online on several different forums over the years, some of them sci-fi literature specific, and have never gotten an answer. The basic premise is that humans colonialize a planet that is populated by orange-skinned humanoids. A human and an extraterrestial fall in love. The colony treaty requires that humans never enter the extraterrestrials' places of worship, possibly called temples. The main human in the story is caught at one of the temples and is in big trouble. He and his lover flee. Of course, what they don't realize is that he wasn't sneaking in to the temple, he was sneaking out. He reveals this to his extraterrestrial love interest, and she kills him, because he has discovered the secret that on a planet that has bodies of mostly salt water, the natives can only mate and reproduce in fresh water. This could be exploited if it became widely known among humans, so she chooses the future of her specieas over her personal happiness. Good lesson there.
Any help would be appreciated, and I hope to stimulate some conversation about science fiction literature here, even if I don't get any answers.
1. This one has been on my mind since this whole covid crap started. It's centered around some organism, possibly extraterrestrial, that attaches itself to humans and takes control over their minds for some nefarious purpose. To combat this, the government mandates that all clothing people wear must be transparent. People willingly comply, basically continuing life naked in see-through clothing. Then, I think, they find a woman walking around with her hand in her opaque purse, and one of these organisms is attached to her hand, so they ban carrying anything that isn't transparent.
2. I've posted this one online on several different forums over the years, some of them sci-fi literature specific, and have never gotten an answer. The basic premise is that humans colonialize a planet that is populated by orange-skinned humanoids. A human and an extraterrestial fall in love. The colony treaty requires that humans never enter the extraterrestrials' places of worship, possibly called temples. The main human in the story is caught at one of the temples and is in big trouble. He and his lover flee. Of course, what they don't realize is that he wasn't sneaking in to the temple, he was sneaking out. He reveals this to his extraterrestrial love interest, and she kills him, because he has discovered the secret that on a planet that has bodies of mostly salt water, the natives can only mate and reproduce in fresh water. This could be exploited if it became widely known among humans, so she chooses the future of her specieas over her personal happiness. Good lesson there.
Any help would be appreciated, and I hope to stimulate some conversation about science fiction literature here, even if I don't get any answers.
