If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

We must think beyond ourselves

When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.