Leah wrote: <How can *anything* be more silly than a giant, inflatable grasshopper that eats red rock candy?>

I do recall a set of elderly SF books my mother owned, where the chief aliens were [a] an intelligent furry 4 foot toad and [b] a fluffy pink cloud that thought it was God (it was voted into the job by other fluffy pink clouds) :-) And we think Moloch was bad ...

Actually, for someone who has previously pleaded for no giant spiders in fanfic (the writer not being on a B7 budget, after all) I found myself staring at a capeworm the other day (before removing it from my houseplant) and thinking "now *that* would make a terrific alien thingy". (For those who haven't had the pleasure, it looks like a large, translucent slug, and 8definitely* not of this world. Harmless, except to my plant).

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