Re: [OT] Bug history was: Starship Troopers

Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

>>I think the "bugs" idea goes back further than the movie "Starship 
>>Troopers". The GW Tyranids are defintiely earlier. They, in 
>>turn, seem to owe much to "Alien" (late 1970's) . 
>>
>
>I haven't been paying much attention to this thread (yes I'm sorry and
I
>will go and sit in the corner now), but I would've thought that the
ideas
>stretched much further back than that. No hard references to back that
up
>mind, but just based on comments my granddad made about books he read
in his
>childhood and stories he and his brothers made up using beetles etc.
>

    I'm pretty sure there is an older A.E. Van Vogt (sp?) story that 
featured an alien that used humans as egg hosts.

    Talk to you later,