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TWO of his novels come to mind as possible answers here;

VOYAGE OF THE SPACE BEAGLE (which also had an nasty alien in it), and THE WAR
AGAINST THE RULL.

I'll have to find The War Against the Rull, I ahdn't heard about that one.
From "Space Beagle" I remember them as nasty bits of appetite who were really
hard to kill, more would be fun.

> DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:

> TWO of his novels come to mind as possible answers here;

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> Michael Llaneza <maserati@earthlink.net> wrote:

> DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:
[re-ordered]
> I'll have to find The War Against the Rull, I ahdn't heard about that

> were really hard to kill, more would be fun.
IIRC 'Voyage of the Space Beagle' had at least two nasty aliens (and
something _really_ nasty at the end), I'm not sure about the name
spelling but I remember Coeiel (or something), a nasty tentacled
cat-like predator with highly developed electromagnetic?
field-manipulation powers and a taste for sucking potassium ions out of
people, and Xixl (?), a red, four-armed alien from a previous universe,
could survive almost anywhere (they found it after it had been floating in
space for about 15 billion years), phase through walls, move faster
than humans can perceive, and had a parasitic life-cycle. I believe that
20th Century Fox got sued due to (probably unintentional) similarities in
Alien (settled out of court).

> Charles Taylor wrote:

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> were really hard to kill, more would be fun.

Correct according to "Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials"

> "SNIP"

> , and Xixl (?)

    Ixtl

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