A joint human-alien team travels to the planet of Darwin IV. The visit seems like an incredible opportunity for human redemption. In Barlowe’s fiction humanity has poiso Perhaps the greatest thing we could ever discover as a species is another.
GYROSPRINTER – Careening across the plains on two powerful legs, the Gyrosprinter is Darwin IV’s fastest ground-dwelling creature. Equipped with a hyper-developed set of halteres for balance, the flexible-bodied animal can turn on a dime eluding most predators with ease.
2/2/2017 · Expedition to Darwin IV . 2/2/2017 0 Comments Wayne Douglas Barlowe is an artist and the author of Expedition , the story of mankind’s visit to planet Darwin 4, home of large, blind, sonar-using liquivores. His paintings of alien plants, animals, and landscapes are amazing. He describes their physiology and behaviors.
This planet is named Darwin IV, and a joint human-Yma scientific expedition is sent to study the planet’s indigenous wildlife. Amongst the expedition members is of course the author. At least some people may remember Darwin IV and many of its alien lifeforms from a documentary called Alien Planet, that was loosely based on the book.
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