In article <Xns9A9EEE6E57F4AJamaisVuUnrealEmaila@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Johnny Tindalos <JamaisVu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Hello rasfwolk,
>
>I'm trying to remember the title of a short story that I read in the 80s,
>collected in an anthology that was probably at least 5-10 years older. It
>involved a zoo on Earth, full of alien specimens, one of which was a
>large snail-like creature kept in captivity on a bed of moss from its own
>world. There is some discussion of the risks that extra-terrestrial
>contamination could pose the planet (I think); anyway, the precautions
>taken are insufficient, as one day the glass is found broken and the
>specimen gone...
>
>...and then the deaths begin.
>
"The Botticelli Horror", by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.?
Found in his collection *The Metallic Muse*.
--
-john
February 28 1997: Last day libraries could order catalogue cards
from the Library of Congress.
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