Were Remora's in an Edgar Rice Burroughs series... It make me think of some ancient Sci-Fi author who used the term.
This is a definition I found. "REMORAS Sharksucker Members of the Echeneidae family, remoras and sharksuckers are slim fish that have a flat sucking disk on the top of their head. They attach themselves usually to sharks or other fish-including marlin, grouper, and ray-but sometimes to the bottoms of boats or other objects. These hitchhikers take an effortless ride with their host, feeding on parasitic copepods found on the host's body and gill chambers" I think this explains the name of the mutants. There is also this reference: "The Remoras," by Robert Reed in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1994 - obviously a short story. But in the same issue..... I found a reference to Brin - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - PG 94 .[v 86 #4, No. 515, April 1994] NatuLife(TM) . David Brin . nv Has anyone seen this? > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 7:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: for the Brin-list > > > Dan from Pennsylvania said: > > > Does anybody have an idea where I am dimly recalling Remoras from? > > I've never heard of the Remoras before, but they sound > vaguely like the > Lobsters from Bruce Sterling's _Schismatrix_ future. > > Rich > GSV Just Saying > >
