The Hike of Yikes

I hope you like bug and snake encounters on your walks in the wilderness.

It's a decently representative cover, from what I remember. The bug is Thranx, Human's major companions in space, and the snake is Flinx's flying, acid-spitting pet.

Say hello to my little friend(s).

Yeah, Darrell K Sweet usually gave the impression that he actually read the books he illustrated or at least got a detailed synopsis. He could have put a bit more effort into making the Thranx look like an intelligent alien rather than just a scaled up terrestrial bug, though. Perhaps give it some sort of hands like in this picture: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91yZ4TpO9OL._SL1500_.jpg

Darrell, do or do not. There is no try. Here, you tried.

Agreed that the other cover is better.

This looks like "guy encounters large vermin on a hike", not "guy, his protective flying buddy bestie, and a colleague on a bike".

(soundtrack: the song "Spiders and Snakes".

Just another day in Australia.

>5 daard23:
(Guy, on an Australian hike. Points to giant bug. Asks "Is this normal?" Other guy fails to respond because flying snake has just gone for his face.)