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Les Xipéhuz
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One of the oldest examples of Science Fiction, "Les Xipéhuz" is a short story by J.H. Rosny. It tells the story of early tribes of neolithic people's war with an unknown, inhuman enemy — the Xipéhuz.The narrative consists of two parts. First is a third-person description of encounters between nomadic tribes and the Xipéhuz, resulting in many deaths from the Xipéhuz mysterious weapons and powers. This is followed by meetings of the clans and tribes, ritual sacrifices, and the assembly of an army to combat the Xipéhuz.The second part is the memoir of Bakhoûn, who observes the Xipéhuz from afar to find out their habits and vulnerabilities. Despite nearly being killed on several occasions, he discovers how individual Xipéhuz can be killed, and how to overwhelm them. What follows is a war of attrition where many thousands of warriors encircle the Xipéhuz and slowly pick away at the invaders and reduce their numbers (which have grown into the thousands), sacrificing many men to kill a greater number of the Xipéhuz. The Xipéhuz are finally defeated when their forest is razed. | |
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Starfish Language | |
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Starfish Language: The Xipéhuz communicate by drawing symbols onto each other with their lasers. | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: The Xipéhuz are crystal-like cones or cylinders with a light on one side which they use for communication and combat and which is also their weak point. | |
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Experienced Protagonist | |
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Experienced Protagonist: Bakhoûn already has 30 children at the start of the story and is a very good archer and some kind of proto-scientist. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Though they wipe out humans seemingly unprovoked, the Xipéhuz mostly spare women and children. | |
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Starfish Aliens | |
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Starfish Aliens: Although it isn't sure if they are aliens, the Xipéhuz are the first incomprehensible creatures in all of Science Fiction. | |
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Aliens Are Bastards | |
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Aliens Are Bastards: The Xipéhuz wipe out everything in their way. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Pretty much every encounter between the humans and the invaders ends this way. Even when the humans find the Xipéhuz weak spot, they still take many losses whilst bringing down just one invader. | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: Bakhoûn laments that they wiped out the Xipéhuz instead of making peace with them. | |
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Bizarre Alien Senses | |
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Bizarre Alien Senses: While it's clear that the Xipéhuz percieve their environment, Bakhoûn never finds out, how they do it, as they have no visible sensory organs and know about humans and other Xipéhuz even if there is something between them. | |
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Silicon-Based Life | |
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Silicon-Based Life: The Xipéhuz are likely this, though whether they came from space, another dimension, or even evolved independently on Earth is never explained. The latter is more likely than you'd think — Rosny would later write another sci-fi story, The Death of Earth, which featured Earth originating silicone-based lifeforms. | |
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Lovecraft Lite | |
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Lovecraft Lite: Later, the Xipéhuz are wiped out by the humans | |
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We Have Reserves | |
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We Have Reserves: Even after discovering the Xipéhuz weakness and successfully defeating some of them, the human tribes ultimately have to resort to this method once it's discovered how quickly the Xipéhuz have been able to multiply: they don't have the time or resources to whittle them down with hit-and-run tactics, and must prepare for an all out assault, casualties be damned. | |
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Bizarre Alien Reproduction | |
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Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Every solstice and equinox, the Xipéhuz gather in groups of three, merge into some kind of ellipsoid and stay this way over night. The next day, they part and leave giant smoky forms which become denser and form into cones much bigger than the adult Xipéhuz before shrinking into their adult forms. | |
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Militaries Are Useless | |
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Militaries Are Useless: After the first tribal meeting, the humans decide to join forces and Zerg Rush the Xipéhuz: it goes about as well as is to be expected when you pit sticks and spears against laser-beams. | |
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Cosmic Horror Story | |
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Cosmic Horror Story: It's not sure what the Xipéhuz are, but they seem indestructible at first and threaten to wipe out mankind. Lovecraft Lite: Later, the Xipéhuz are wiped out by the humans | |
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Rock Beats Laser | |
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Rock Beats Laser: The Xipéhuz have some kind of heat ray, but in the end, they are wiped out by stone/bronze age humans. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: The Xipéhuz seem like this to the humans. Later in the story, they become less incomprehensible, but still Starfish Aliens. | |
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Guilt-Free Extermination War | |
| Les Xipéhuz / int_91c651a1 | comment |
Guilt-Free Extermination War: What the humans do to the Xipéhuz to make sure that the Xipéhuz don't do it to them. Only Bakhoûn wishes there was a peaceful solution, but he doesn't find one. | |
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Polyamory | |
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Polyamory: Bakhoûn has four wives, but it isn't treated as anything special by his people. | |
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Ancient Astronauts | |
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Ancient Astronauts: If the Xipéhuz ware indeed aliens. | |
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Apocalypse Cult | |
| Les Xipéhuz / int_ab27d196 | comment |
Apocalypse Cult: Some mystics form one when they realize that humanity is doomed. | |
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For the Evulz | |
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For the Evulz: It seems the Xipéhuz kill just for fun, as they never eat what they kill. | |
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Outside-Context Problem | |
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Outside-Context Problem: For paleolithic humans, some non-organic creatures made from crystal with lasers are quite a Outside-Genre Foe | |
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Living Polyhedron | |
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Living Polyhedron: The Xipéhuz come in three different geometric shapes. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: It's never explained why the Xipéhuz destroy everything in their way. | |
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Alien Invasion | |
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Alien Invasion: It's not sure if the invaders are alien, but they certainly aren't organic lifeforms as we know them. | |
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Stone Punk | |
| Les Xipéhuz / int_f629e042 | comment |
Stone Punk: The story is about paleolithic/mesolithic humans fighting what might be aliens. | |
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Death Ray | |
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Death Ray / Disintegrator Ray: What the Xipéhuz use to kill animals. | |
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