Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MMDF+MULTI+2.11; site kcl-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!kcl-cs!ramsay From: ramsay@kcl-cs.UUCP (ZNAC440) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Zugs Message-ID: <606@west44.kcl-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 21:53:47 EDT Article-I.D.: west44.606 Posted: Fri Jun 21 21:53:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:01:30 EDT References: <2264@topaz.ARPA> <378@ttidcb.UUCP> Reply-To: ramsay@kcl-cs.UUCP (PUT YOUR FERRET HERE) Organization: Department of Computing, Kings College, University of London. Lines: 21 Xpath: kcl-cs west44 In article <378@ttidcb.UUCP> guzman@ttidcb.UUCP (Marc Guzman) writes: >I am trying to find the title and author of an sf book I read >as a kid. My memory is limited to : > > . there were these very-hard-to-kill reptilian things called > zugs. > > . and, the specially bred and raised killers. they were brought > up in +1G ?bubbles? to give them the neccessary strength and > reactions to kill the zugs. > > . set in the ?mid-distant? future. > >There might have been a political / social 'situation', but I >wouldn't bet on that point. This sounds like 'Beyond the Barrier' by Damon Knight. R.Ramsay