Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that nothing is what it seems). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.

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James Gunn: "Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that nothing is what it seems). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series."

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Aliens	Along	Ambiguousness	Complexity
Consider	Contact	Delayed	Developed
Disregarded	Essential	Fifth	Film
Human	Minds	Most	Motivation
Nothing	Novel	Novelettes	Part
Principle	Product	Questions	Raises
Seems	Series	Sixth	Start
Stories	Writing

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Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that nothing is what it seems). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series. - James Gunn