SOURCE: "The Last Days of Shandakor" (Startling Stories, April 1952)

DESCRIPTION:"...And there were others. Slender creatures with great wings, some who were lithe and furred, some who were hairless and ugly and moved with a sinuous gliding, some so strangely shaped and colored that I could not even guess at their possible evolution..." ("The Last Days of Shandakor" by Leigh Brackett)

NOTES: In this story Brackett names none of these creatures, only gives a vague description. These races are extinct and only projections made by the Shandakorans who keep invaders out by creating an illusion of inhabitation.

HISTORY: The Shandakoran projector pictures are similar to the Phantom Archers in Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs in that they are a defense mechanism for the city. The winged race sounds rather Burroughsian as well.

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