"Although Lioobee was an artist, he looked more like a monster. His brown dragon skin would have stopped a knife. Carved silver-tipped horns marked his knees and elbows, and his huge hands, human in design, nonetheless showed eight retractable claws at the knuckles. No silver there. They were filed sharp and were buffed to a polished glow. The hands were for a strangler not the sculptor he was. His arms were high even in proportion to his ten-foot height. They brushed his knees when he stood up.
But his face gave the true nightmarish touch. Eyeless, nose-less marked only by a gash of a mouth and by a goggle-shaped region above it, where the skin was stretched drum head tight."
Grendel, Neutron Star, Larry Niven
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