The aliens will not be silicon and that's okay!
All my 'humble yourself' jokes are a reference but it feels lame to constantly dunk on that guy so I didn't clip him in here.
On the Potential of Silicon as a Building Block for Life
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32532048/
Life in the Universe
press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691241784/…
The Black Cloud
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1246118
Angela Collier