The Vermicious Knids, from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator, are a species of genocidal and amorphous egg-shaped aliens from the planet Vermes. They’re famous for shaping themselves ...
In Slime: A Natural History, science journalist Susanne Wedlich preempts her readers’ repulsion. Although “we are all creatures of slime,” she writes on page 2, the mere mention of the name connotes ...