Talk:Under the Skin (novel)

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Where in the novel is it specified that Isserley or her compatriates are extra-terrestrials? They're certainly not like any known species, but that doesn't necessarily make them ETs, in terms of sci-fi.

I saw no explicit ET reference; some descriptions of the vast sky as opposed to Isserley's claustrophobic feelings about home suggested a species that had moved from surface living to an underground existence, not necessarily on a planet other than this one. Could the creatures have been inspired by Richard Shaver's hollow earth theory? See Richard Sharpe Shaver

(Rockhyrax (talk) 14:37, 5 September 2009 (UTC))[reply]

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Everything hints at them being aliens from another planet, though. They mention "their world" several times, and it seems literal instead of figurative. Isserley feels claustrophobia because before coming to Earth she worked in underground "oxygen mines". Human meat is transported to her planet using a ship (which is not described thoroughly) which launches through the roof of one of the houses; if her world was inside Earth, why would they launch through the roof? 190.194.206.43 (talk) 22:54, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]