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* Most plant life on [[Cyteen]], in [[C. J. Cherryh]]'s ''[[Alliance Union]]'' [[The Verse|'verse]], is basically a cross between cottonwood and asbestos, and is full of alkaloid poisons and heavy metals to boot. Go outside the precip towers' envelope without protection and you die quick; get a smaller exposure and you die later from lung cancer. The animal life, at least, is slow and stupid. The original colonists started [[Terraform|terraforming]] measures, which they pulled the plug on fast when an anti-aging drug was derived from local biology. |
* Most plant life on [[Cyteen]], in [[C. J. Cherryh]]'s ''[[Alliance Union]]'' [[The Verse|'verse]], is basically a cross between cottonwood and asbestos, and is full of alkaloid poisons and heavy metals to boot. Go outside the precip towers' envelope without protection and you die quick; get a smaller exposure and you die later from lung cancer. The animal life, at least, is slow and stupid. The original colonists started [[Terraform|terraforming]] measures, which they pulled the plug on fast when an anti-aging drug was derived from local biology. |
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* [[David Drake]] has used this more than once: |
* [[David Drake]] has used this more than once: |
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** There are the |
** There are the eponymous ''Seas of Venus'' (two stories, ''The Jungle'' and ''Surface Action'') wherein the plants and animals are all varying degrees of dangerous ranging from "inclement" to "you just got killed so thoroughly, your parents are retroactively dead." (This is based on the novella "Clash by Night" by Henry Kuttner writing as Lawrence O'Donnell.) |
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** ''Redliners''. Burned-out, over-wrought veterans with more than a few ill deeds on their consciences are sent along to safeguard a group of purely-civilian colonists on a new world. They were warned that the planet had dangerous wildlife, but {{spoiler|it turns out to be an enemy base gone wrong, of sorts -- the entire biosphere is a weapons system that evolves itself in response to the defenses (proactive and otherwise) that the protagonists devise}}. See [[When Trees Attack]] for examples. |
** ''Redliners''. Burned-out, over-wrought veterans with more than a few ill deeds on their consciences are sent along to safeguard a group of purely-civilian colonists on a new world. They were warned that the planet had dangerous wildlife, but {{spoiler|it turns out to be an enemy base gone wrong, of sorts -- the entire biosphere is a weapons system that evolves itself in response to the defenses (proactive and otherwise) that the protagonists devise}}. See [[When Trees Attack]] for examples. |
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** The world of Bellevue in ''[[The General]]'' series Drake co-wrote with [[S.M. Stirling]] is only partially [[Terraform|terraformed]] and the native fauna is highly dangerous. |
** The world of Bellevue in ''[[The General]]'' series Drake co-wrote with [[S.M. Stirling]] is only partially [[Terraform|terraformed]] and the native fauna is highly dangerous. |
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