Sound Effects

"The Acolytes."

Wilson Pete knows the sounds of Terrestrial nights:

buzzing insects;

chirping crickets;

croaking frogs;

blending noises.

Nerthusian night sounds are different and would have to be represented in a film sound track:

thrumming

humming

singing

screaming

pattering

scraping

laughing

hooting

hissing

chuckling

bubbling 

- and the distinctive voice of the small green tinklers, like glass bells that sound like a hypnotic:

"Come out, come out, come out..." (p. 10)

Death trap. The tinkler's siren song is central to the story and would have to be rendered convincingly.

Andersonian extra-solar planets often have equivalents of grass. On Nerthus, there is simply tall grass but it smells different from the Terrestrial variety.