RE: [OT] Bug history was: Starship Troopers

BUGS, did  exist in sci-fi all the  way back to  a story about
intellignt  ants in the  amazon by HG WELLs, whiich is the  erliest
reference i can find.

before i sold them off	before a move in the  70s, i had not only ACE
sci-f- paperbacks  from  ye ancient $0.25 and $0.35 cent  single and
double	novels	to the	then current  G series	latest issues.

i also had  pulp magazines, all the way back to the 30s on up through
the  70s, and included here  were  many magazine titles  most  folks
have never  even  heard of.

beautifull lurid  covers, with BEM  (BUG EYED MONSTERS) and BBW  ( BIG
BOSSOMED WOMEN) on them.

also on the  ace, pocketbook, signet, pyramid,	bantam, and etc, paper
back publishers.

bugs  did  appear now and then.

but ALIEN owes its  (much improved!) monster to an old movie made in
1957 or 1958 called IT! THE TERROR BEYOND SPACE!, and the  crashed
alien starship owes its look to an alien  starship in another movie
VAMPIRES FROM  SPACE or maybe SPACE  VAMPIRES made in the  early 60s.

yes- i am well aware  that  Tyranids (an outgrowth of the original GW
genestealer concept). 

 and the  genestealers can trace their	ancestry to   short  story
called	WHO GOES THERE?,  the original 1950s  movie  version of this
story called  THE THING FROM ANOTHER  WORLD,  the  remake of this
movie, and of  course ALIEN .

the  ARACHNIDS from STARSHIP TROOPERS (the book) are much  more
dangerous  enemies than the bugs of STARSHIP TROOPERS (the movie).

DAWGIE, who has just heard  about some	allegedly 6-10 foot long