Greg Egan
How exactly can Greg Egan not be mentioned here? Hell, he has perspectives of creatures that don't even live in a universe that exists in the same way ours does.
I'm thinking in particular of Incandescence, which has long tracts of narrative narrated by a small grub-thing with strange social motivations and sapience that basically turns on and off as needed.
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Perchance nobody added him yet. The latter seems alike a good example at any rate.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Do works about transhumans count, if they appear superficially human but one of the main points of the work is how these transhumans do not behave like modern humans do?
Removed this:
- Wall-E, told from the point of view of a robot who is not of the ridiculously human variety.
Justification:
Wall-E is in every way a human brain in a trashcan-robot. He displays none of the personalities that would be expected of a programmed machine (following programming, etc). He watches TV, is fascinated by a particular movie, takes junk home from his job, etc. He even falls in love.
The only human thing he *doesn't* do is talk. As the trope page says, "if you can replace the non-humans with (maybe superpowered) humans without too much trouble, it's probably not Xenofiction." And that's what we have in Wall-E. It may be about something that is technically a robot. But he never behaves like a robot.
Shouldn't the main character of the video game Ōkami be listed as a xenofiction? You play as a goddess named Amaterasu who takes the form of a wolf. The game has a heavy emphasis on Amaterasu's wolf-ness in a world of (mostly) humans; she doesn't understand or appreciate human attractiveness, she interacts with others through biting, she moves in very wolf-ish ways throughout the game, etc.