Piers Anthony has also used it (in both forms) in his book, "Bearing an Hourglass".
The times I've personally seen it used was in reprintings of old DelRay, and other early "golden age" authors, they used it both as "bug eyed monsters" and "B.E.M.s" or just bems with out punctuation.
Now isn't this nice and almost totally useless information.
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Date: 2005-09-16 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-16 10:04 pm (UTC)B.E.M. = Bug Eyed Monster
Often used in pulp-type sci-fi to describe otherwise undescribable alien critters.
do they really use it IN the story?
Date: 2005-09-16 11:43 pm (UTC)I think the closest thing I've ever read to a B.E.M. story (and liked) was Asimov's "Green Patches"/"Misbegotten Missionary" short story.
Re: do they really use it IN the story?
Date: 2005-09-17 02:44 am (UTC)The times I've personally seen it used was in reprintings of old DelRay, and other early "golden age" authors, they used it both as "bug eyed monsters" and "B.E.M.s" or just bems with out punctuation.
Now isn't this nice and almost totally useless information.
Re: do they really use it IN the story?
Date: 2005-09-17 03:31 pm (UTC)Asmovian books, Clarke, Harry Harrison, Joe Haldeman, Philip K. Dick... those are my sort of sci-fi authors, that I can call off the top of my head (and without delving into the Mountain of Fiction©).
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Date: 2005-09-16 11:26 pm (UTC)