How to Tell a Griever from a Griever

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Apparently I’m not the only author with Grievers on the brain. Unbeknownst to me–at least while I was writing The Grievers–fantasy author James Dashner was creating his own Grievers, a race of slug-like creatures with metal appendages that appear in his 2009 novel The Maze Runner. In order to spare readers any confusion that might result from this coincidence, I’ve prepared a handy chart:

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