Typee, incidentally

David Stockhoff · 14 Nov 2010, 13:38 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:38:03 -0500
Subject: (urth) Typee, incidentally
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Sounds plausible. There are lots of available "green" references, I'm sure.

I recall an Andre Norton (I think) novel in which all life on a planet 
is plants, including the "animals." There's Brian Aldiss's Hothouse, 
too, but the other came first.

On 11/13/2010 11:43 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 11/13/2010 9:53 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> Never read that---can you describe it?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Patches
>
> A new planet features a super-organism whose individual bodies all use 
> patches of green fur to see, even the germs. In short order, the 
> colony livestock begins to parthenogenically produce  young, also with 
> green fur instead of eyes. When the women colonists all turn up 
> pregnant, the colony ship captain sends a warning back to earth before 
> self-destructing the engines to sterilize the colony site. A research 
> mission follows.
>
>

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