BTW, I seem to recall being surprised by how non-alien characters by Dostoevsky were: it seemed as though differences between that culture and mine were mostly cosmetic or technical.
I suspect this may be cause you read authors whose culture were significantly different from yours as part of your education, whereas Eliezer got his ideas for what an ‘alien’ culture would look like by looking at aliens as written by contemporary writers.
I suspect this may be cause you read authors whose culture were significantly different from yours as part of your education, whereas Eliezer got his ideas for what an ‘alien’ culture would look like by looking at aliens as written by contemporary writers.