Hyp: Initial Shrike description

[Veronica, Supreme Sword]

For some reason, the description of the Shrike (view spoiler)[when we first see it in the Basilica (hide spoiler)] really reminded me of the slake-moth from Perdido Street Station. I'm not sure why, since this is clearly a humanoid, and the slake-moth is... well, definitely not. Must have been the way it's described... lots of pointy things good for impaling, segmented eyes, etc.

Anyone else see (think) what I'm seeing?

[[deleted user]]

Not me. I went with the image on the cover, just with more arms.

[Tamahome]

Yeah, Shrikey has 4 arms not 2. The first 2 paperback covers in the series are wrong!

[Zac Campbell]

When I got the description of the shrike I pictured



From The Power Rangers Movie... two extra arms and a little more spiky

[Ian]

I think I see where you're going, coincidentally I've just read Perdido St station and thought that the moths having random slicers/protrusions etc was a bit familiar to something I'd read before, but couldnt place it....

[Tamahome]

There's a bizarre image that comes up in the military scifi chapter. I've said enough.

[Nevan]

Tamahome wrote: "Yeah, Shrikey has 4 arms not 2. The first 2 paperback covers in the series are wrong!"

And then you get to the Endymion paperback cover. They've only misspelled the name of the main character. ಠ_ಠ

[Skaw]

I went and googled hyperion shrike and got a lot of a cool images. I liked this one:

http://www.rabbit-reviews.com/news/hy...

[Cy]

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South of Hallettsville, TX

[Jonathon]

For me, I have sorta two mental images of the Shrike when I'm reading - one for when it's not doing much and another for when it's doing it's Shrike-y thing and eviscerating folk.

The first crafts the Shrike as the four-armed offspring of the Silver Surfer, the T-1000 from Terminator 2, a Cylon centurion from Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica and a... well... I dunno, but something really pointy.

But whenever it's described as doing stuff, my mind instantly shifts to a similar, but distinctly more insectoid form. Perhaps with a bit of scorpion thrown in there for good measure.

It's quite fascinating really that I'm not the only one who seems to have latched onto this sort of bug-like quality.

[Mark]

Well my immediate reaction was to think of a book series I read as a kid, Animorphs. The stock bad guys in that series looked kinda like this:

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&...

[Anne]

Shrike seemed a lot like OSCs Hive Queen.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3631/3...

[Marz]

I couldn't find a good picture, but for some reason I pictured the creature from the short indie film, "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello." Probably because I had watched it recently.

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&am...