(urth) some mysterious stuff in Long Sun tick/silk/auk/chenille

[James Wynn]

On 1/17/2011 4:25 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Also, always confused by Tick.  Does he have blue eyes?  His catachrest speech seems like we should do something with his name.

Tick is an homage to James H. Schmitz's Tezey Amberdon stories. Her 
earliest story (I think) was called "The Novice". Telzey was a girl who 
carried on psychic communication with her Tiger-like alien pet, a crest 
cat named Tick-Tock.

Telzey was part of Schmitz's "Hub" series. A character that Telzey comes 
in contact with is a film noir-style character named Wellan Dasinger. 
Dasinger had his own story called "The Star Hyacinths" in which he 
encounters a fellow with an alien bird-like attack pet.

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