Ban Ban - An annoying dog. Ban Ban the Third, owned by Gabu Gabu Jones Equally sleep-disturbing was the flesh-and-blood dog which was indulging in its habitual howling. As Atlanta was fully aware, this...

Bucktip Panagan - A fighting Cock. Atlanta looked at the Cockfighting Times, reading it upside down. Scrap Chippenbuck, the victor of seventeen fights and the ruling champion of the city of Lexis, was to meet Bucktip...

Butterflies - Butterflies The eastern garden of the Engramicus Mulch was overgrown. Weeds grew in the cracked bowl of a ruinous mirarilusistan, one of the key features of the garden, the other being an outsized...

Cats - Cats. 'It means we're irritating,' said Grindle-Joyce. 'The metapsychic faultline doesn't like us. But we're weak, our nervous systems don't transmit much energy. That's why we don't irritate it...

Great Worms Of The Tunnels Of Cavitation - A giant worm that lives in the caverns of Hell and can eat people. In Heaven it is often the best of mountain climbers who die, ascending to heights 'where wings themselves must fail, and Hope in her...

megawhale - Though the odd name was, strangely, vaguely familiar. 'Naflamak,' said Nodo, 'is our very own consulate in Barth Banchup Bakchakris. It's named after a hero, you know, the one who did that job on the...

merdog - As fun was surrendered in favour of work, various holographic capture-blocks were installed and tested. As those sky-clear cubes were tested, fragmentary images appeared within them: partial view of...

moji - moji are a fish that react to emotions. Unfortunately, her seat had been taken, and the only one left was next to the glass tank which contained the moji, a beast which most people shunned as best...

Mongoose Pack - Ever since then, the keeping of great Mongoose Squads has been a feature of Chalakanesian life, with the Seven States vying with each other to see which can produce the fiercest, most reckless pack of...

Mongoose Squad - As most readers in Heaven and Hell will not have seen a mongoose, let it be known that this animal looks like a grey cat with dark stripes running from head to tail. Only, it cannot possibly be...

Nebraska - A cat of family Jubiladilia Heineman was exceedingly annoyed, and also surprised - even a little bit frightened - by this eccentricity. He had always known that cats could swim - something which he...

Rainbow Moth - Heineman was not going to risk votes by speaking up for the stink-bat. The stink-bat was undoubtedly an endangered species. Furthermore, sober analysts believed it to be important to Chalakanesia's...

Scrap Chippenbuck - Champion Fighting Cock Atlanta looked at the Cockfighting Times, reading it upside down. Scrap Chippenbuck, the victor of seventeen fights and the ruling champion of the city of Lexis, was to meet...

Skins - The adaptive skins can be worn over the human body to breathe underwater. Zinjanthrop was completely thrown by her change of tack. 'Skins?' he said. 'What've the skins got to do with this?' 'At...

stink-bat - A smelly bat. Becomes an election issue in EoH and is near extinction due to de-forestation in NoP. The stink-bat was undoubtedly an endangered species. Furthermore, sober analysts believed it to be...

zogo zalth - Flying steel darts. That arched tube of water looked to be about as broad as the belly of a ship. It was alive with twisting lightning, and blinked with flashes of red, blue, green, white and yellow....