—I am hugely black and hopeful, I bounce on six legs along the mountains in the new warm! . . . Sing the changer, Sing the stranger! Will th
If I never get to communicate with another sentient organism that isn’t human within my lifetime, at least I’ve gotten that wish granted through this story. Thank you, James Tiptree Jr./Alice B. Sheldon. You’ve shown me how beautiful-and ferocious, and strange-an alien mind can be.
I hope that if you choose to read this story that you feel so too.









