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Alien isn’t directly based on “Black Destroyer
- While Alien isn’t directly based on “Black Destroyer,” the story is certainly an influence: a cat-like creature is taken aboard a space vessel exploring a distant planet, but rather than being harmless, it begins preying on the crew.
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Nov 21, 2019 · While Alien isn’t directly based on “Black Destroyer,” the story is certainly an influence: a cat-like creature is taken aboard a space vessel exploring a distant planet, but rather than being harmless, it begins preying on the crew.
"Black Destroyer" was combined with several other short stories to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle. It was claimed as an inspiration for the movie Alien and van Vogt collected an out-of-court settlement of $50,000 from 20th Century Fox .
Finally, and I posted about this back in 2012, there is a massive inspiration for the alien of Alien coming from a 1939 novelette by A.E. van Vogt, Black Destroyer. That story is told from the perspective of the intelligent alien animal.
Jul 25, 2021 · Looking at their overpowered abilities though, it is clear that the White Spikes’ design actually comes from another popular extraterrestrial – A.E. van Vogt’s Coeurl aliens. Appearing in both his “Black Destroyer” short story and his subsequent adaptive novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle, the Coeurl were sentient, feline-like ...
- Natalie Schmidt
Sep 24, 2014 · “Black Destroyer” is the tale of a deadly carnivorous cat-like alien, the coeurl, who stalks the crew of an exploration spaceship. Van Vogt’s first published short story, it made the cover of the July 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction (right; cover art by Graves Gladney).
Mr. Van Vogt was most famously known for his “Dorsai!” novels. “Black Destroyer” tells of an alien life form, “Coerl,” a vicious, sentient animal somewhat resembling a large cat, with tentacles coming out of its neck, each with seven fingers.
When they find the body, only one person suspects the cat-like alien. The others are worried, but won't jump to any conclusions just yet. An autopsy reveals that the body has been cleared of all phosphorus, and the most vocal against Coeurl places a bowl of it in front of it to see how it reacts.
