Literature
Grendel has appeared in a few works of contemporary literature, one of the most well-known being the 1971 John Gardner novel, Grendel, in which the character is portrayed as a pensive, solitary creature who fears that his life has no objective meaning.
Grendel and "Grendel's ma" or "Grendel's mum" are also characters in Suniti Namjoshi's 1993 postmodern collection of feminist fairytales, St Suniti and the Dragon. Consisting of non-sequential poetry and prose, St Suniti and the Dragon focuses on the adventures of St. Suniti, a female saint-in-training. During these adventures, St. Suniti has a number of encounters with Grendel and Grendel's ma.
Other notable appearances include Grendel (Niven), the 1968 short story by Larry Niven, The Legacy of Heorot, which includes alien predators called "grendels" and the Wendol, members of a fictional enemy race in the Michael Crichton novel Eaters of the Dead. There is also a brief mention of "sea grendels" in The Gripping Hand by Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
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