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Bernd Since: Feb, 2016
2011-11-25 11:11:26

First off, I have not read any of the books - sorry! But are you sure that it was extraterrestrial life? There are some books "Life after man" and such, which have pictures and (IIRC) short texts about hypothetical animals that evolved millions of years after humans are extinct.

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FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2011-11-26 08:43:00

I suppose it might have been future life, but it definitely wasn't After Man, Man After Man, or Future Evolution. Yes, I've read a lot of this kind of book.

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2012-01-30 14:51:40

Losing hope, yet still bumping.

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2012-10-15 02:15:00

I got my hands on a copy of The National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe and that's probably it. I think I misremembered or misinterpreted the illustration of a gas-bag alien being punctured by a predator.

KEVP Since: Aug, 2009
2012-10-15 05:54:45

Well, if you are open to the idea that you may be misremembering, there is a creature in Man After Man that is aquatic, but can go on land inside a sort of "water bag". At one point one of these is punctured by another creature. But it is not a duck.

I'm having a hard time imagining why it would be a duck. There is no reason to think an extraterrestrial would be a duck. A duck is an inherently funny animal (there are more jokes about ducks than any other creature), could it have been a comedy book?

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FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2012-10-18 17:44:05

I'm familiar with that illustration in Man After Man. I have a hard time imagining how my mind could have distorted that into the thing I remember. IIRC the "duck" didn't look that much like a duck. It was like an unhatched chick, all veiny and featherless but still birdy. My mother called it a duck.

The National Geographic book I mention above is probably the explanation. There is a bag alien from Jupiter being punctured by a predator, and separate aliens from Titan that are sort of like embryonic birds. My memory probably conflated the two. Here's what I'm walking about: http://www.gamingsteve.com/blab/index.php?topic=13687.0

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