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Robert Freitas shares the story behind the Xenology. Robert Freitas was still in college when he started his now-legendary handbook to alien life. Published in 1979, Xenology offered some of the first — and still among the only — serious academic discussion of potential extraterrestrial biology, culture, and more, including, yes, ray guns and orgasms.Continue reading “This scientist wrote the ultimate guide to alien weapons, music, and sex”