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Kilrathi (Wing Commander)
Caitans (Star Trek)
Cat (Red Dwarf)
Thundercats (nuff said)
Kzinti (Star Trek/Larry Nivenverse)
Cat population of New Earth (Doctor Who ep New Earth and...urr...the other one)
Na'avi (Avatar)

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Ooh, one more than necessary.

Selezen wrote:

Kilrathi (Wing Commander)
Caitans (Star Trek)
Cat (Red Dwarf)
Thundercats (nuff said)
Kzinti (Star Trek/Larry Nivenverse)
Cat population of New Earth (Doctor Who ep New Earth and...urr...the other one)
Na'avi (Avatar)

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Ooh, one more than necessary.

You could also have had

Mrrshan (Master of Orion)
Aslan (Traveller)
Crugar (Skyrealms of Jorune)
Hani (C J Cherryh's Chanur novels)
Lyrans (Star Fleet Battles)
Khanate of Orion (Starfire)
Treecats (Honor Harrington series)

... and so on. Over to you!

Disembodied wrote:

Treecats (Honor Harrington series)

In my top three favourite alien species, is the Treecat - a six-limbed, telepathic carnivore - and celery freak!

You could also have had the Aircat from Shadow of the Ship.

Disembodied wrote:

Aslan (Traveller)

Aslan!! That was the Traveller one. I tried to remember that one but couldn't, and I was trying (for once) to stay away from Google.

Would Aslan (Chronicles of Narnia) have counted??

OK. Question.

After a forty year journey, a starship's crew find two planets so close to each other that they share an atmosphere. They find a world of stone and a world of water joined in gravity. They also find an intelligent but technologically innocent race who don't have the power to help them when they become stuck on the world so they have to use their own ingenuity to escape the planet's pull.

Name the book and author please.

Robert Lull Forward's Rocheworld, published as "The Flight of the Dragonfly"?

Darn. And I thought that was sufficiently obscure to last a couple of days.

Well done. Over to you, Kasero.

After a breeding program reaches its ultimate conclusion, 4 girls (two pairs of twin girls) and 1 boy in a mind-merged unity destroy a multi-billion years old race and then become the new guardians of Civilization.
This is described in the 6th volume of a series started in 1934.

Name the series, this 6th book and it's author.

Read this series about 30 years ago.

Lensman Series
Children of the Lens
E.E. 'Doc' Smith

Doc, Asmiov and Clark were the first authors I read that got me interested in Sci-Fi.

Correct Tricky, over to you

Tricky wrote:

Doc, Asmiov and Clark were the first authors I read that got me interested in Sci-Fi.

Them plus Jules Verne... and Heinlein, of course.

A generation liner is nearing the end of it's journey. The system they get to is expected to be uninhabited as this will be their home. However this is not so.

Book title and author please.

Kasero wrote:

This is described in the 6th volume of a series started in 1934.

I had mixed feelings about this: 'sounds like an interesting sto.... Nevermind, he gave away the ending!'

Rxke wrote:

Kasero wrote:

This is described in the 6th volume of a series started in 1934.

I had mixed feelings about this: 'sounds like an interesting sto.... Nevermind, he gave away the ending!'

Doc Smith was the lord of "Space Opera" - Lensman series is brilliant - spoilt only by the very strange and only tenuously linked "Masters of the Vortex" (aka "Vortex Masters") as the final volume - so in fact I'd suggest not reading it.

D'Alembert series is also brilliant (High G super spies/circus performers).

Lord Tedric - very good, quite odd though.

"Subspace" - Encounters and Explorers - scientists from two parallel universes use subspace to swap over.

Skylark series - proper hero/anti-hero mega-battle across the galaxy.

Plus between myself and my father we own several one offs that have been printed over the years.

Chris Foss did some amazing artwork although Doc Smith believed in beautifully smooth spherical or tear drop ships and Chris Foss loved angular ships with bulbous protrusions.

Tricky wrote:

A generation liner is nearing the end of it's journey. The system they get to is expected to be uninhabited as this will be their home. However this is not so.

Book title and author please.

The planet is called Ground by the inhabitants and their technology level is close to the late 19th to early 20th century.