Re: A E VAN VOGT

In message <3C7552EA.1010200@earthlink.net>
	  Michael Llaneza <maserati@earthlink.net> wrote:

> DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:
> 
> >TWO	of his	novels	come to mind  as  possible answers here;
> >
> >VOYAGE OF THE  SPACE  BEAGLE  (which also had an nasty alien in it),
and
> >THE	WAR  AGAINST THE  RULL.
> >
> >DAWGIE
> >
> >
[re-ordered]
> 
> I'll have to find The War Against the Rull, I ahdn't heard about that 
> one. From "Space Beagle" I remember them as nasty bits of appetite who

> were really hard to kill, more would be fun.
> 
> 
IIRC 'Voyage of the Space Beagle' had at least two nasty aliens (and
something _really_ nasty at the end), I'm not sure about the name
spelling but I remember Coeiel (or something), a nasty tentacled
cat-like predator with highly developed electromagnetic?
field-manipulation powers and a taste for sucking potassium ions out of
people, and Xixl (?), a red, four-armed alien from a previous universe,
could survive almost anywhere (they found it after it had been floating
in space for about 15 billion years), phase through walls, move faster
than humans can perceive, and had a parasitic life-cycle. I believe that
20th Century Fox got sued due to (probably unintentional) similarities
in Alien (settled out of court).

Charles