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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Under the Skin (novel)/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
Where in the novel is it specified that Isserley or her compatriates are extra-terrestrials? They're certainly not like any known species, but that doesn't necessarily make them ETs, in terms of sci-fi.
I saw no explicit ET reference; some descriptions of the vast sky as opposed to Isserley's claustrophobic feelings about home suggested a species that had moved from surface living to an underground existence, not necessarily on a planet other than this one. Could the creatures have been inspired by Richard Shaver's hollow earth theory? See Richard Sharpe Shaver ( Rockhyrax ( talk) 14:37, 5 September 2009 (UTC)) |
Last edited at 14:37, 5 September 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 09:31, 30 April 2016 (UTC)