History Literature / TheVoyageOfTheSpaceBeagle

* IntelligentGerbil: The Coeurl
* InertialDampening

* FrickinLaserBeams: The radiation emitted by the vibration pistols and atomic disintegrators is invisible, so a 'tracer beam' is used for aiming.

* {{Terraform}}: Anabis, a galaxy-spanning consciousness that has terraformed all planets in its own galaxy by ripping a piece of its planets surface off and sending to to the target planet through hyperspace (called junglescaping).

* ItCanThink: The crew bring the Coeurl on board the ''Beagle'' in the belief that it's a dumb animal. Unfortunately it's as intelligent as they are. It only went on board the spacecraft because it's getting old; rather than falling victim to its own kind, it can journey to another world and find new prey there.

* ItCanThink: The crew bring the Coeurl on board the ''Beagle'' in the belief that it's a dumb animal. Unfortunately it's as intelligent as they are.

** AHouseDivided: In fairness the issues were a bit more serious than people not being Nexialists. The Space Beagle's crew were splitting up into competing factions, endangering the long-term safety of the ship.

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood - for some background, everyone on the ship was a scientist, all from different schools of thought. Grosvenor, the main POV character, studies "nexialism," which is a vague generalist overview of all the sciences (as opposed to specializing in one). His view s presented as the superior, and only way to study science (i.e. specialists are always wrong and narrow-minded, generlaist views are best). Nobody listens to his warnings of danger, and nobody signs on to Nexialism, so eventually he hypnotizes the entire crew through the ship's PA system to force them to turn to Nexialism. It works, and by the end of the book, all the ship's scientists become Nexialists and learn from him.

* EldritchAbomination: Ixtl.

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood - for some background, everyone on the ship was a scientist, all from different schools of thought. Grosvenor, the main POV character, studies "nexialism," which is a vague generalist overview of all the sciences (as opposed to specializing in one). His view s presented as the superior, and only way to study science (i.e. specialists are always wrong and narrow-minded, generlaist views are best). Nobody listens to his warnings of danger, and nobody signs on to NExialism, so eventually he hypnotizes the entire crew through the ship's PA system to force them to turn to Nexialism. It works, and by the end of the book, all the ship's scientists become Nexialists and learn from him.

A recurrent theme of the stories was that the ship's science officer gave a warning of danger, but was ignored and always ended up having to save the crew by himself.

* MeaningfulName: The title is an obvious reference to the HMS ''Beagle'', the ship whose voyage of exploration included CharlesDarwin (and the story has a similar discovery-of-new-species theme.)

* MeaningfulName: The title is an obvious reference to the S.S. ''Beagle'', the ship whose voyage of exploration included CharlesDarwin (and the story has a similar discovery-of-new-species theme.)

Although obscure today, the stories were enormously influential; to the point that some of the creatures Vogt invented have been openly imitated, most notably the telepathic, cat-like Coeurl (which became a recurring monster in the ''FinalFantasy'' series) and even the xenomorphs from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' might have been based on Vogt's work (he certainly believed so.)

''The Voyage of the Space Beagle'' is a Science Fiction novel by Creator/AEVanVogt. To be more precise, it is actually the compilation of several short stories that van Vogt had written for a magazine years before. All the stories had in common the involvement of the ''Space Beagle'', an Earth starship sent to explore new areas of space, encountering ever more fantastic -and dangerous- alien lifeforms along the way.

* AndIMustScream: Ixtl's human victims are paralyzed with its eggs inside them, waiting for the hatchlings to eat their way out. [[spoiler:The crew extract the eggs in time and the paralysis wears off.]]

Although obscure today, the stories were enormously influential; to the point that some of the creatures Vogt invented have been openly imitated, most notably the telepathic, cat-like Coeurl (which became a recurring monster in the ''FinalFantasy'' series) and even the xenomorphs from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' might have been based on Voght's work (he certainly believed so.)

* AndIMustScream: Ixtl's human victims are paralyzed with its eggs inside them, waiting for the hatchlings to eat their way out. [[Film/Alien Sound familiar?]]

Although obscure today, the stories were enormously influential; to the point that some of the creatures Vogt invented have been openly imitated, most notably the telepathic, cat-like Coeurl (which became a recurring monster in the ''FinalFantasy'' series) and even the xenomorphs from {{Aliens}} might have been based on Voght's work (he certainly believed so.)

''The Voyage of the Space Beagle'' is a Science Fiction novel by AEVanVogt. To be more precise, it is actually the compilation of several short stories that van Vogt had written for a magazine years before. All the stories had in common the involvement of the ''Space Beagle'', an Earth starship sent to explore new areas of space, encountering ever more fantastic -and dangerous- alien lifeforms along the way.

Although obscure today, the stories were enormously influential; to the point that some of the creatures Voght invented have been openly imitated, most notably the telepathic, cat-like Coeurl (which became a recurring monster in the ''FinalFantasy'' series) and even the xenomorphs from {{Aliens}} might have been based on Voght's work (he certainly believed so.)