The Green Brain

Cover art by Gerald McConnell

"In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects which made these areas uninhabitable. Using deadly foamal bombs and newly developed vibration weapons, men like Joao Martinho and his co-workers fought to clear the green hell on the Mato Grosso.

But somehow those areas which had been completely cleared were becoming reinfested. Tales were coming out from the jungles... of mutated insects that have grown to incredible sizes and able to produce deadly toxins... of insects who seem to be men, but whose eyes gleamed with chitinous sheen of insects."

The Green Brain, Frank Herbert, Ace Books © 1966

The FReeMade

"FReemade. A little tribe. Escapes from a man, without arms, with useless ornamental beetle wings. There is a man with rubberised pincers, a man who wears a crocdile's snout, a hugh cur with the head of a pretty woman. The dog's is a male body. By the skins they wear the jewellery of holed stones on sinews, by the complexities like wood and tea."

Iron Council, China Mieville

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Updated on 7.25.24 @ 1:25 PM: Corrected two spelling errors.

Further Adventures of Roveramdom

“… On the white side of the moon, the insects are very large and fierce, and often so pale and so transparent and so silent that you hardly hear or see them coming. The moonbeams only shine and flutter, and Roveramdom was not frightened of them, the big white dragon-moths with fiery eyes were much more alarming; and there were sword-flies and glass beetles with jaws like steel-traps and pale unicornets with stingers like spears, and fifty-seven varieties of spiders ready to eat anything they could catch…"

Roverandom, J.R.R. Tolkien