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Help me find an obscure sci-fi book from my childhood.
Glass.Cannon
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Yesterday I had one of those experiences in which a random thing from my childhood will pop into my head that I haven't thought about in over a decade. It was an old science fiction book that was written for a younger audience, and almost certainly involved pictures. All I can remember about it clearly is that it involved a group of space travellers (like the sort of crew you'd expect from the old Star Trek or Flash Gordon shows) who end up on a planet inhabited by people made of bone. They're not strictly animated skeletons, as there was some awkward attempts to explain their existance with the usual pseudoscience. They had no mouths (instead having a flat surface where the mouth and jaw would be), and presumably communicated telepathically or something. I remember the heroes managed to kill some of them by making a weapon that somehow messed with the pressure in the air pockets in the bone-like material they were made of, making them explode.
I also think that this was part of a series, as I remember getting this book because I already had one of the others. I have absolutely no idea what the first book I had was about, nor do I know whether the same protagonists were involved. It may also be possible that I'm wrong about the book having pictures, and am instead seeing images I had in my head back then of what I thought they looked like.
My attempts at googling this just get me that comic called Bone and a ton of more recent stuff, so I leave it to you in the hopes that a fellow sci-fi nerd might remember this more clearly than I do.
I also think that this was part of a series, as I remember getting this book because I already had one of the others. I have absolutely no idea what the first book I had was about, nor do I know whether the same protagonists were involved. It may also be possible that I'm wrong about the book having pictures, and am instead seeing images I had in my head back then of what I thought they looked like.
My attempts at googling this just get me that comic called Bone and a ton of more recent stuff, so I leave it to you in the hopes that a fellow sci-fi nerd might remember this more clearly than I do.
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but they're listening to every word I say
The art was also more detailed than that, and I think the bone people's faces looked kinda like General Grivous, in that they had normal eyes with some flesh around them sitting in the skull. Of course, given how awful my memory is, there's always the chance that this is just some dream or nightmare I had that somehow worked its way into my head again. The only reason I'm still confident that this existed is that I remember being really impressed with the air pressure thing, as I would have been too young at the time to come up with something like that on my own.