A thought on space fiction or high fantasy (copied over from my facebook synopsis of the same link):
In
most fiction, humans take one of three roles. We're either boring,
baseline of the universe, absolutely shit and
outgunned/muscled/toughnessed/intelligenced by literally everything, or we are among
the scariest things in the universe.
In a universe where the
other sentient species don't drive technological advancement primarily
by killing vast swaths of their populations (and creating better means
of doing so leading to most other technologies as a side effect), humanity is freaking
terrifying. In fiction where "murder machines" aren't the baseline of
the universe, we end up either A. killing everything or B. meeting
something that managed to get good enough tech to threaten us and we
wind up serving as super shock troops
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