The Oberon Space Station as depicted in the Planet of the Apes
The Oberon Space Station seems to be revovling around Saturn which is a bit confusing as the premise of the story is that because of a space storm, the space station ends up on what looks like Earth.
King Kong-King Kong Delux and Extended Edition
You have to feel for the big guy. He really gets a raw deal. Any way how many King Kong movies are there now? Three, four? It seems like they keep on finding new speicies of creatures on the island. Not that I am complaining, I love all of them.
This is my first in a new series: Skull Island. Skull Island might be an interesting boardgame, if someone would take the time create one. Anyone want to collaborate on a project?
"'But what was that—that thing you killed in the altar-hut?' asked Balthus, with a shiver at the memory of the dim-seen horror.
'One of Zogar's gods. One of Jhebbal's children that didn't remember and had to be kept chained to the altar. A bull ape. The Picts think they're sacred to the Hairy One who lives on the moon—the gorilla-god of Gullah."
Chapter 5 The Children of Jhebbal Sag, Beyond the Black River, Robert E. Howard
"Now the thing was emerging from the cell and was again advancing up the corridor, its misshapen head close to the ground. It paid no more heed to the locked doors. It was smelling out his trail. He saw it more plainly now; the gray light limned a giant anthropomorphic body, but vaster of bulk and girth than any man. It went on two legs, though it stooped forward, and it was grayish and shaggy, its thick coat shot with silver. Its head was a grisly travesty of the human, its long arms hung nearly to the ground.
Conan knew it at last—understood the meaning of those crushed and broken bones in the dungeon, and recognized the haunter of the pits. It was a gray ape, one of the grisly man-eaters from the forests that wave on the mountainous eastern shores of the Sea of Vilayet. Half mythical and altogether horrible, these apes were the goblins of Hyborian legendary, and were in reality ogres of the natural world, cannibals and murderers of the nighted forests."
Chapter 5: The Haunter of the Pits, The Hour of The Dragon, Robert E. Howard
