YASID: Mutant fetus villain?
Tim McDaniel
(though tweeish) art, has a question at
http://www.redwombatstudio.com/blog/?p=4714
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Mutant fetus villain?
Okay, before I start the what-was-that-book communities, I shall seek
knowledge from you, O vast cross-section of fandom!
Do any of you remember a book--pretty sure it was science
fiction--where the villain was a weird evil fetus thingy? He could
walk around, he was human sized, but he had that freaky fetal head
thing going on, only bigger. Possibly he was telepathic, not entire
clear on that, but he was definitely bad. I recall the weird eyes and
whatnot being rather horribly vividly described and it gave me the
screaming weeblies, and for some reason I forgot it for, oh, twenty
years or so, and now it's poking at my brain with a stick.
I am pretty sure this is neither "Lasher" nor "Demon Seed" which as I
recall also involved freaky mutant fetuses.
Kurt Busiek
Probably not what she's looking for, but the comic book CAPTAIN VICTORY
AND HIS GALACTIC RANGERS had an awesome villain named Paranex, the
Fighting Fetus.
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Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Hmm. Well I recall a story (Kuttner?) with a mutant fetus, but he was
still in-utero and telepathically running his parents lives. He got
all flustered as he was about to be born trying to set up a special
environment, and when that didn't happen got all the "super" knocked out
of him at birth and was just a normal baby..
Van Vogt's _The Battle of Forever_ had earthmen (and women) reduced to
super fetuses more or less, but the protag was a hero. (Sort of -- being
a Van Vogt hero, he couldn't be bothered to stop the destruction of Earth
which he was perfectly capable of preventing because he was busy having
a Thalmic pause or something..)
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Dorothy J Heydt
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>>
>>Do any of you remember a book--pretty sure it was science
>>fiction--where the villain was a weird evil fetus thingy? He could
>>walk around, he was human sized, but he had that freaky fetal head
>>thing going on, only bigger. Possibly he was telepathic, not entire
>>clear on that, but he was definitely bad. I recall the weird eyes and
>>whatnot being rather horribly vividly described and it gave me the
>>screaming weeblies, and for some reason I forgot it for, oh, twenty
>>years or so, and now it's poking at my brain with a stick.
I don't suppose that could by any chance be Jane Gaskell's
_Strange Evil_?
>
>Hmm. Well I recall a story (Kuttner?) with a mutant fetus, but he was
>still in-utero and telepathically running his parents lives. He got
>all flustered as he was about to be born trying to set up a special
>environment, and when that didn't happen got all the "super" knocked out
>of him at birth and was just a normal baby..
Oh, is that the one where the fetus was writing a novel (dictated
to his mother)? And when he was being born told his mother he
needed an incubator with a tenth normal oxygen? And as he was
born his superness went away and the OB spanked him into
breathing and his mother raised her head and said "Give him one
for me"? I remember reading that long ago in the 1950s; don't
remember title or author.
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Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Yeah, that's the one. And they sold the novel, then he declined to actually
finish it because he knew the ending and that was enough for him..
Butch Malahide
wrote:
> In article <LopzKE.1...@kithrup.com>,
> Dorothy J Heydt <djhe...@kithrup.com> wrote:
> >In article <98sdg4Fve...@mid.individual.net>,
"Special Delivery" by Damon Knight.
Joyce Haslam
> Ursula Vernon, of the wonderful Web comic _Digger_ and some amazing
> (though tweeish) art, has a question at
> http://www.redwombatstudio.com/blog/?p=4714
On her live journal account http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1459472.html
she agreed with me that the book was _Second Stage Lensman_ (need I add
EESmith?).
Joyce.
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
Ahhh, that wouldn't have occurred to me, but I can see that. She was
talking about Gharlane's "true" form as revealed to Kim after he (with a
bit of help from Mentor) beat him?
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Tim McDaniel
rev_ursa wrote there "That's the one I was thinking of.", but that
appears to be someone different from ursulav.
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Robert Carnegie
where planet Earth is unknown) was freaky, but not that specific way,
if I'm interpreting his description in Wikipedia the same way that you
would. It says he was based on somebody that author Isaac Asimov
knew...
Steve Coltrin
djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) writes:
> Oh, is that the one where the fetus was writing a novel (dictated
> to his mother)? And when he was being born told his mother he
> needed an incubator with a tenth normal oxygen? And as he was
> born his superness went away and the OB spanked him into
> breathing and his mother raised her head and said "Give him one
> for me"? I remember reading that long ago in the 1950s; don't
> remember title or author.
Damon Knight. Looking at a list of his short stories, I think it's
"Special Delivery".
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Joyce Haslam
> On 7/22/11 7:30 AM, Joyce Haslam wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:04:48 +0000, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>>
>>> Ursula Vernon, of the wonderful Web comic _Digger_ and some amazing
>>> (though tweeish) art, has a question at
>>> http://www.redwombatstudio.com/blog/?p=4714
>>
>> On her live journal account http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1459472.html
>> she agreed with me that the book was _Second Stage Lensman_ (need I add
>> EESmith?).
>
>
> Ahhh, that wouldn't have occurred to me, but I can see that. She
> was talking about Gharlane's "true" form as revealed to Kim after he
> (with a bit of help from Mentor) beat him?
That was my idea. However, downthread...
Tim McDaniel wrote:
> rev_ursa wrote there "That's the one I was thinking of.", but that
> appears to be someone different from ursulav.
Ouch! My bad.
Joyce.
Dorothy J Heydt
Yes. There's even a picture of him in one of the group photos in
_In Memory Still Green._
Basically, the guy had (a) a very large nose, (b) hyperthyroidism,
which made him skinny and very active and exophthalmic.
*Most* of the Mule's freakiness, of course, was internal.
Suzanne Blom
> Ursula Vernon, of the wonderful Web comic _Digger_ and some amazing
> (though tweeish) art, has a question at
> http://www.redwombatstudio.com/blog/?p=4714
>
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>
> Mutant fetus villain?
>
> fiction--where the villain was a weird evil fetus thingy? He could
> walk around, he was human sized, but he had that freaky fetal head
> thing going on, only bigger. Possibly he was telepathic, not entire
> clear on that, but he was definitely bad. I recall the weird eyes and
> whatnot being rather horribly vividly described and it gave me the
> screaming weeblies, and for some reason I forgot it for, oh, twenty
> years or so, and now it's poking at my brain with a stick.
>
on my shelves) but this doesn't sound like it.
Butch Malahide
> begin fnord
> djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) writes:
>
> > Oh, is that the one where the fetus was writing a novel (dictated
> > to his mother)? And when he was being born told his mother he
> > needed an incubator with a tenth normal oxygen? And as he was
> > born his superness went away and the OB spanked him into
> > breathing and his mother raised her head and said "Give him one
> > for me"? I remember reading that long ago in the 1950s; don't
> > remember title or author.
>
> Damon Knight. Looking at a list of his short stories, I think it's
> "Special Delivery".
Yes, that's the answer I posted 12 hours ago.
> Steve Coltrin spcol...@omcl.org Google Groups killfiled here
Never mind! :-)
Brenda Clough
This is quite an old theme. I have tinkered with it myself, in "Gray to
Black." The story appeared in ROCKET BOY AND THE GEEK GIRLS. No weird
eyes in mine, though. Just a creepy pregnancy.
Brenda
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