The Mouth of the Beast

Irene is a mining robot with human characteristics, sent to a distant planet to collect soil samples which could determine the suitability of transforming this planet to Earth-like conditions. There Irene encounters a titanic beast of immense proportions that engulfs the hapless robot into its mouth. Emerging after spending almost three centuries in the hollowed-out tooth of this enormous animal, Irene finds a world that has been drastically altered. Now deemed obsolete by the new colonists, she is forced to fight for her right to exist.

While inside the massive tooth Irene befriended a fussy little alien and others of his kind. This little brave soul was the only one that joined Irene in her bid to escape from the mouth of the beast as it lay dying. The unusual duo are faced with overwhelming odds as they try to oppose a ruthless team of earthlings involved in a continuing terraforming project that had no regard for the original life of this distant planet.