The Adventure of the Speckled Band the snake wrong, a theory that the swamp adder was an artificial hybrid between the Mexican Gila monster ("Heloderma suspectum") and "Naja naja". His speculation suggests that Doyle might have hidden a double-meaning in Holmes' words. What Holmes said, reported by Watson, was "It is a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India"; but Klauber suggested what Holmes really said was "It is a "samp-aderm", the deadliest skink in India." "Samp-aderm" can be translated "snake-Gila-monster": "Samp" is Hindi for snake, and the suffix "aderm" is derived from "heloderm", the common or vernacular name of the Gila monster generally used by
The Rocket (short story) Ritt. Additionally, a comic adaptation by Joe Orlando and Al Feldstein appeared in "Weird Science" (EC Publications, Nov.-Dec. 1953) under its original title "Outcast of the Stars," and later in Bradbury's collection of comic adaptations, "Tomorrow Midnight" (Ballantine, 1966). The 2006 film "The Astronaut Farmer" (with Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Willis) is loosely based on "The Rocket" and shared a very similar theme and moral. The Rocket (short story) "The Rocket" is a Science fiction short story (initially published under the name "Outcast of the Stars") by American writer Ray Bradbury. It is also included in "The Illustrated Man",