Recent content by Tom B

If you do - please sort out the Zhodani psion list - there are a few issues with it.

We went Alpaca walking (I recommend it) and it was explained why but I can't remember the details. It is an evolutionary adaptation so the young is born and has the best chance of survival.

Just as a note, some placental mammals can put foetuses on hold, e.g. alpacas.

The book was called the Selfish Gene

Many pack animals have leaders that will discipline lower ranking members that break the rules, including killing them. I'm trying to think of some good examples. Another thing to consider is war. Chimpanzees and one species of mongoose will go to war with neighbouring groups.

Some spiders have lungs - I specified insects as he problem. Having Terrestrial giant spiders is probably more feasible, though their legs would have to change as mass increases, legs have to get thicker and thicker to support.

Ginat insect type creatures are fine, you just need to have them have differences to Earth's. They need lungs.

Yep - but uplifted species would then not be able to live in normal Earth conditions. Doesn't stop a mad man experimenting though

Elephants are intelligent, long-lived and have a trunk which can be used as a hand. And they possibly have quite complicated communications in subsonic frequencies. And long lived. In Footfall Earth is invaded by a race of intelligent elephantoids (they were smaller than real elephants)...

The problem with uplifting insects, is they cannot have a large body. There's a restriction in the way they breathe. They would need to have lungs. I have created wasps, but these are not Earth wasps, they are an independently evolved species and they're for a different thread.

I ran a couple of Bounty Hunts I'd written at WorlCon in Glasgow last year. Corporate Thief and Botany Hunt. These are now in JTAS volumes 15 & 18. If you want the plants I used for Botany Hunt contact me directly.

That is a nice twist

Or was the money just resting in his account?

Updated - DM me and I'll send it to you. In one of the recent JTAS - there's a human race that was manipulated by the Hivers

I'll update it first!