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* The [[All Trolls Are Different|Trolls]] in Pratchett's [[Discworld]] kind of fit, because while they 'look' like [[Humanoid Aliens]] their physiology is mineralogical (is that the word?) rather than biological.
** Geological, I suppose. The troll brains is silicon, so they get stupider in warmer climates, and they view the past as being "in front" of them because you can see it, so people travel backwards through time. It's complicated, [[Rule of Cool|but cool]].
** There's a bit in ''[[
* Various alien species in [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Lensman]]'' series, including but not limited to the Palainians, who lived on Pluto-like planets and had metabolic mechanisms which extended into the fourth dimension in order to work, the Rigellians, who looked like large barrels on legs with
** It's emphasized that regardless of their physical form, they're still ''people'' - the Velantian Worsel is one of Kimball Kinnison's best friends. However, the Palainians, while still on the side of Civilization, do have remarkably weird psychologies.
* [[Diane Duane]] loves including this trope in her ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels, adding such members of the ''Enterprise'' crew as giant snowflake-shaped silicon creatures, a bipedal catlike being who doesn't comprehend past tense, two-meter-long lizards, a Starfleet captain who is basically a giant slug, a glass spider with twelve legs who wrote the laws for a universe,
** See also Diane Duane's ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series. The first book involves an intelligent ''stellar body'' and things get crazier from there.
* The novel ''The Leaves of October'' by Don Sakers mostly revolves around a race of sentient, telepathic (but not [[Epileptic Trees|epileptic]]) trees that can influence the evolution of other life forms by blowing themselves up. They can also communicate by altering the coloration of their leaves, which humankind does eventually learn to translate.
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