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Old 02-20-2009, 06:19 AM   #82
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Originally Posted by Fledchen View Post
My friend and I are trying to remember the title of a science fiction story in which an animal had evolved a symbiotic relationship with a plant with round seeds, using the seeds as a kind of crude wheel.
Anyone know what it was?
Philip Pullmans Dark Materials series comes to mind, book three (The Amber Spyglass) specifically. It had aliens which used the round and nearly indestructible seeds of a tree as a kind of unicycle to whiz along the naturally produced "highways" on the planet.
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