Sweet. Anything about the body at all, and/or a bit more on the face?
Heinlein's Fauna...
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Unfortunately not. I went through it once but will try again today.
Unfortunately, I do not have Fireproof's resources. I read Tunnel In The Sky in high school, using a school provided copy for an English class, and have not found a copy for sale anywhere. As for my copy of Between Planets, it is in storage and I cannot get at it currently.
Honestly, I'm just searching titles and PDF and finding online libraries to check out from.
The texturing is so realistic. Really appreciate the details on this one.Well here is a Syndonian (nude):
thnx
@Atolm From "Have Spacesuit Will Travel."
Excerpt 1:
He wasn’t human but that wasn’t what hurt. Elephants aren’t human but they are very nicepeople. He was built more like a human than an elephant is but that was no help-I mean hestood erect and had feet at one end and a head at the other. He was no more than five feet tallbut that didn’t help either; he dominated us the way a man dominates a horse. The torso partwas as long as mine; his shortness came from very squat legs, with feet (I guess you wouldcall them feet) which bulged out, almost disc-like. They made squashy, sucking sounds whenhe moved. When he stood still a tail, or third leg, extruded and turned him into a tripod-hedidn’t need to sit down and I doubt if he could.
Short legs did not make him slow. His movements were blurringly fast, like a striking snake.Does this mean a better nervous system and more efficient muscles? Or a native planet withhigher gravity?His arms looked like snakes-they had more joints than ours. He had two sets, one pair wherehis waist should have been and another set under his head. No shoulders. I couldn’t count hisfingers, or digit tendrils; they never held still. He wasn’t dressed except for a belt below andabove the middle arms which carried whatever such a thing carries in place of money andkeys. His skin was purplish brown and looked oily.
Excerpt 2:
No nose. He was an oxygen breather but where the air went in and out I couldn’t say-some ofit through the mouth, for he could talk. The mouth was the second worst part of him; in placeof jawbone and chin he had mandibles that opened sideways as well as down, gaping in threeirregular sides. There were rows of tiny teeth but no tongue that I could see; instead themouth was rimmed with cilia as long as angleworms. They never stopped squirming.I said the mouth was “second worst”; he had eyes. They were big and bulging and protectedby horny ridges, two on the front of his head, set wide apart.
The "Mother Thing":
Excerpt 1:
The Mother Thing blinked her eyes and looked serenely sad. She had great, soft,compassionate eyes-she looked more like a lemur than anything else but she was not aprimate-she wasn’t even in our sequence, unearthly. But she had these wonderful eyes and asoft, defenseless mouth out of which music poured. She wasn’t as big as Peewee and herhands were tinier still-six fingers, any one of which could oppose the others the way ourthumbs can. Her body-well, it never stayed the same shape so it’s hard to describe, but it wasright for her.She didn’t wear clothes but she wasn’t naked; she had soft, creamy fur, sleek and fine aschinchilla. I thought at first she didn’t wear anything, but presently I noticed a piece ofjewelry, a shiny triangle with a double spiral in each corner. I don’t know what made it stickon.
Excerpt 1:
He wasn’t human but that wasn’t what hurt. Elephants aren’t human but they are very nicepeople. He was built more like a human than an elephant is but that was no help-I mean hestood erect and had feet at one end and a head at the other. He was no more than five feet tallbut that didn’t help either; he dominated us the way a man dominates a horse. The torso partwas as long as mine; his shortness came from very squat legs, with feet (I guess you wouldcall them feet) which bulged out, almost disc-like. They made squashy, sucking sounds whenhe moved. When he stood still a tail, or third leg, extruded and turned him into a tripod-hedidn’t need to sit down and I doubt if he could.
Short legs did not make him slow. His movements were blurringly fast, like a striking snake.Does this mean a better nervous system and more efficient muscles? Or a native planet withhigher gravity?His arms looked like snakes-they had more joints than ours. He had two sets, one pair wherehis waist should have been and another set under his head. No shoulders. I couldn’t count hisfingers, or digit tendrils; they never held still. He wasn’t dressed except for a belt below andabove the middle arms which carried whatever such a thing carries in place of money andkeys. His skin was purplish brown and looked oily.
Excerpt 2:
No nose. He was an oxygen breather but where the air went in and out I couldn’t say-some ofit through the mouth, for he could talk. The mouth was the second worst part of him; in placeof jawbone and chin he had mandibles that opened sideways as well as down, gaping in threeirregular sides. There were rows of tiny teeth but no tongue that I could see; instead themouth was rimmed with cilia as long as angleworms. They never stopped squirming.I said the mouth was “second worst”; he had eyes. They were big and bulging and protectedby horny ridges, two on the front of his head, set wide apart.
The "Mother Thing":
Excerpt 1:
The Mother Thing blinked her eyes and looked serenely sad. She had great, soft,compassionate eyes-she looked more like a lemur than anything else but she was not aprimate-she wasn’t even in our sequence, unearthly. But she had these wonderful eyes and asoft, defenseless mouth out of which music poured. She wasn’t as big as Peewee and herhands were tinier still-six fingers, any one of which could oppose the others the way ourthumbs can. Her body-well, it never stayed the same shape so it’s hard to describe, but it wasright for her.She didn’t wear clothes but she wasn’t naked; she had soft, creamy fur, sleek and fine aschinchilla. I thought at first she didn’t wear anything, but presently I noticed a piece ofjewelry, a shiny triangle with a double spiral in each corner. I don’t know what made it stickon.
That fist one I drew already here:
Heinlein's Fauna...
LOL, sorry I thought it was the same "Martian"... lol I reread it. Edit: So in rereading, It really doesn't read as that different other than the Martian is wearing an encounter-suit. Nothing seems to be suggesting a difference to me.
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I have not drawn the second one yet...
Whoops...I missed itThat fist one I drew already here:
nHeinlein's Fauna...
LOL, sorry I thought it was the same "Martian"... lol I reread it. Edit: So in rereading, It really doesn't read as that different other than the Martian is wearing an encounter-suit. Nothing seems to be suggesting a difference to me.
I have not drawn the second one yet...
LOLWhoops...I missed it
