[Virginia-American]

One of my favorites.

HC had quite an imagination for aliens well-adapted to their environment. He wrote a short story "Uncommon Sense" where the aliens have one sense that is similar to both sight and smell.

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I vaugely recall a story like that. IIRC it was on a nearly airless moon, and the mean free path of molecules was quite long. The hero ended up casing ingots of their blood and spiking the area around his ship to have it swarmed to distract the hijackers long enough to regain control.

That one?