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@roomey

For sci-fi, I'd offer two things for consideration:

- alien names should follow the same rules (phonological, structural, semantic) within a species;

- avoid alien words unless they're needed (the "call a rabbit a smeerp" issue).

Apart from that, I tend to avoid too obviously meaningful names, but I like a name to be evocative -- the problem being, one's never sure a name evokes the same thing to the reader than to the author.

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