I'm Looking for (Quirky) Xenofiction

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I'm looking for a novel from the P.O.V. of a non-human creature or living concept, similar to the manga and anime series, Cells at Work! (in which blood cells and viruses are personified as humanoids and monsters) or maybe something less quirky, like Laline Paull's novel The Bees, about sapient bee culture. Also if quirky and humorous, something like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy focusing on an alien or Flatland (I've read all these books). It could be something funny, but I'll accept it if it is offers a bizarre perspective (like that of a sapient shape, bizarre alien, conceptual or metaphysical being, animal, or, less commonly, mythological creature). Ideally a xenofictional weird fantasy or sci-fi novel. No children's or YA books. Also, no spiders, as they scare me. Any takers?
 
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Guttersnipe said:
I'm looking for a novel from the P.O.V. of a non-human creature or living concept, similar to the manga and anime series, Cells at Work! (in which blood cells and viruses are personified as humanoids and monsters) or maybe something less quirky, like Laline Paull's novel The Bees, about sapient bee culture. Also if quirky and humorous, something like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy focusing on an alien or Flatland (I've read all these books). It could be something funny, but I'll accept it if it is offers a bizarre perspective (like that of a sapient shape, bizarre alien, conceptual or metaphysical being, animal, or, less commonly, mythological creature). Ideally a xenofictional weird fantasy or sci-fi novel. No children's or YA books. Also, no spiders, as they scare me. Any takers?
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No spiders - AdrianTchaikovsky’s Alien Clay is a great take on xeno possibilities
 
The 13.5 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Graham
 
Lots of aliens so far, which is good, but any from metaphysical or metaphorical beings? Numbers, symbols, or gods, demons, etc.? Or even Death, like in The Book Thief, but in a fantasy vein?
 
The title story in Ann Leckie's Lake of Souls collection would be another example of a non-humanoid alien protagonist. Her Raven Tower novel is also partially told from the perspective of a God who is a large rock.
Jo Zebedee said:
No spiders - AdrianTchaikovsky’s Alien Clay is a great take on xeno possibilities
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I was definitely about to recommend a different Tchaikovsky book until I got to the 'no spiders' bit, I think I wouldn't definitely not recommend Children of Time to an arachnaphobe. His Dogs of War could be more suitable, the main characters in it being a dog, a bear, a lizard and a swarm of bees.
 
Azimov's The Gods Themselves has some great aliens, seen from their own point of view.
(You won't meet them until the central section.)
 
Dragon's Egg, Robert Forward. Life on the surface of a neutron star - life that's very different from anything we know, and living under very alien conditions that Forward imagines for us rather well. This is not fantasy but hard SF that expands one's ideas of where life might exist - and one's understanding of time. https://www dot librarything dot com/work/94939
 
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Dragon's Egg, Robert Forward. Life on the surface of a neutron star - life that's very different from anything we know, and living under very alien conditions that Forward imagines for us rather well. This is not fantasy but hard SF that expands one's ideas of where life might exist - and one's understanding of time. https://www dot librarything dot com/work/94939
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Star Trek Voyager did an episode along those lines Blink of an Eye. :)
 
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