Okay, so among everything else I’m doing these days and the projects I’m writing, I’m trying to figure out one of my stories. In this story, I’m working out a whole alien civilization right down to creating a whole other species of people. And so, I have run into a slight conundrum.

Reproduction.

Granted, it’s not really going to come up in the strictly technical sense of which parts go where to do what. I’ve already figured out most of that anyway. It occurred to me, though, that I never decided whether or not I wanted to have androgynous aliens with no gender or to have them actually have the classic male and female genders.

Granted, they are meant to interact with humans and most of their physiology is pretty humanoid. One of those like-us-but-really-not sort of situations.

So, those who do check out this blog, tell me. Should I have genderless aliens or is it too alienating (Yes, pun, shut up) and should I put in the genders to make them a little more familiar?