Wildlife on the Planet Furaha by Gert van Dijk

We’re not in Kansas anymore. (c) Gert van Dijk (2025), used with permission. A long time ago, bored with painting exploding spacecraft for others, I started painting alien creatures for my own pleasure. — Gert van Dijk, from the Appendix I’m distinctly late to this party, only having learned last year of the existence of Gert van Dijk’s Furaha project. Furaha is a magnificent work of worldbuilding, by an MD-PhD neurologist and professional artist, spanning decades of paintings, years of blog posts and articles across two websites, a YouTube channel, and now a physical book. I also somehow completely missed the opportunity to meet Gert van Dijk at DinoCon last year — a mistake I will be correctly as early as possible this year. Furaha and Earth and their moons compared. (c) Gert van Dijk (2025), used with permission. Gert’s* new book, Wildlife on the Planet Furaha: A Speculative Biology Guide to Alien Lifeforms, distills, refines, and in some cases expands the pre-existing Furahan…