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Heinlein's Fauna...

Klendathu Pseudo-Arachnid Warrior:
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No problem... In the book they used weaponry and technology, if I remember correctly (been a long while). The also don't have exoskeletons, and their eyes are like ours... So I tried to convey that.
 
No problem... In the book they used weaponry and technology, if I remember correctly (been a long while). The also don't have exoskeletons, and their eyes are like ours... So I tried to convey that.
Yes, as Johnny Rico notes, "dumb ones don't build spaceships."

I don't think the brain bug got much description sadly.
 
no worries... I have some ideas.
Excerpt 1 of the Brains and Queens:
We knew what the brain caste looked like; we had seen them dead (in photographs) and we knew they could not run — barely functional legs, bloated bodies that were mostly nervous system. Queens no human had ever seen, but Bio War Corps had prepared sketches of what they should look like — obscene monsters larger than a horse and utterly immobile

Excerpt 2 which seems to say Sgt. Zim was "holding" the brain:
That fight didn’t last any time at all, because he had warned me what to expect. He had captured a brain Bug and was using its bloated body as a shield. He could not get out, but they could not attack him without (quite literally) committing suicide by hitting their own brain. We were under no such handicap; we hit them from behind. Then I was looking at the horrid thing he was holding
 
Here's a Skinny:
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Dunno if anyone has anything else from Heinlein... If not, then this might be the last post in this thread by me. I know Heinlein has had more, but it seems that most people may not know him here, or just do not wish to participate, which is cool... just an observation.
 
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Your art is very impressive, so if you've run out of Heinlein aliens, I hope you'll continue trying your hand at other prose-SF aliens.
That would have to be a new thread (easy part), but people would need to participate with the descriptions (hard part).

And Thanks.
 
Here's a Skinny:
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Dunno if anyone has anything else from Heinlein... If not, then this might be the last post in this thread by me. I know Heinlein has had more, but it seems that most people may not know him here, or just do not wish to participate, which is cool... just an observation.
I'm grabbing another copy of a book this weekend and will post more excerpts. I might be the only one but I love your work and detailed efforts.
 
I remember the leonines and the killer rabbits from Tunnel In The Sky. You might check those out. Also the various alien species from Between Planets, if you're interested.
 
They were what Star Trek's Tribbles were based on....

"The flat cats resemble flattened, red mounds of fur, with no discernible mouth, limbs or breathing orifices, but three small black eyes on one end of their bodies. They are nevertheless able to emit a purring reminiscent of a cat, hence their name."
 
They were what Star Trek's Tribbles were based on....

Not consciously. Gerrold goes into this in Chapter 9 of his book "The Trouble With Tribbles" about the making of the episode, starting on p. 250 in my 1973 Ballantine edition. The studio legal department noticed the similarity to Heinlein's flat cats and contacted Heinlein to offer to buy the story rights from him, but when Gerrold learned of it, he only realized after the fact that he might have been unconsciously influenced by reading The Rolling Stones 15 years earlier. Gerrold said his main inspiration was the proliferation of rabbits in Australia when they were introduced to an environment with no natural predators, and if he'd consciously realized the similarity to Heinlein, he would've changed it.

For Heinlein's part, he didn't ask for money because he considered the similarity too superficial to matter, and figured they were both probably drawing on Ellis Parker Butler's "Pigs is Pigs."
 
Always interested, just need some descriptions.
From Citizen of the Galaxy, Syndonian:

Excerpt 1:
The auctioneer had overlooked something; the young dandy was from Syndon IV. He
removed his helmet, uncovering typical Syndonian ears, long, hairy, and pointed. He
leaned forward and his ears twitched
 
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