Re: FMAS names

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:03:58 -0500, "stranger" <stranger@cvn.net> wrote:

>It was Starship Troopers by Heinlein, which was published a long time
before
>anyone ever heard of Aliens. 

Ah, but the aliens in "Starship Troopers" were very bug like. And only
one set
of aliens were called bugs. (The others were "skinnies", if I remember.)

It was "Aliens" that used the term "bugs" to be sort of a generic alien
lifeform term. "Is this another bug hunt?"

However, if I had to pick one, I think you're right. If the "bugs" term
is a
sci-fi analogue for "gooks", "charlie", "jerry", etc., then the lineage
is
Heinlein.

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
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