Posted by Bob Scott Glasgow Scotland on April 25, 1997 at 02:15:16:
Reading the previous postings about the Pnume I'm reminded of the similarities I've recognised between the 'Planet of Adventure' series and 'Gulliver's Travels'.
The satirising of human frailties through their attempted emulation of alien cultures is one resonance, and as I recall,the episode where Reith encounters a Pnume at close quarters he desribes it as having a horse like skull and its back legs having knees the reverse of human beings.
Houyhnhnms were the intelligent gentle horse creatures that Gulliver encountered contrasted by the crass human beings or Yahoos.
There seems to be a vague resemblance here -or amI stretching things too far?