JOLLY DAYS

Outer Space Down Below

Stranger than the strangest creatures invented by Olaf Stapledon in Last and First Men, the creatures in this book, The Deep by Claire Nouvian, reminds you of the morphological genius of Nature. It is almost hard to believe some of these creatures are alive, they seem so fragile, and others so fierce they appear to be horror movie animatronics.

The Lehrer piece about her work. (Make sure to check out the slide show link on the upper right.)