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- From: agc@bmdhh286.bnr.ca (Alan Carter)
- Subject: Re: Ecologies Wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.191512.25767@bnr.uk>
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- References: <1992Nov18.141235.15238@HAN.Paramax.COM>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:15:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.141235.15238@HAN.Paramax.COM>, tom@HAN.Paramax.COM (Tom Jewell) writes:
- |> I'm looking for titles of books that have detailed non-Earth
- |> ecologies. David Gerrold's "War Against the Chthor" series
- |> has quite a detailed one, including bugs, scavengers,
- |> herbivores, carnivores, etc.
- |>
- |> Can anyone recommend another source where a complete
- |> ecosystem is described?
- |>
- |> What I'm NOT looking for is "this planet had a cool monster"
- |> (or whatever), I'm looking for a whole system.
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- Someone once told me that Frank Herbert had worked out the ecology of
- Arrakis in *far* more detail than he published in the Dune books, and
- that his notes are contained in a library held by an academic
- institution. It may have been Princeton. Does anyone know more?
-
- Alan
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