Apeman, Spaceman - An Anthology of Anthropological Science Fiction

Apeman, Spaceman - An Anthology of Anthropological Science Fiction

Published: 1968

Pages: 360

Rating: 3.81

Language: en

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Publisher: Rapp & Whiting

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What if Homo Sapiens was just a rather special breed of galactic wild rabbit?

Or a high class form of goldfish- Homo-Piscis?

What if he were spiritually inferior to a resurrected version of Neanderthal Man-who
can even beat him at American football?

Apeman, Spaceman is a collection of anthropological SF stories which all pose the question: what is man's place in the universe? To someone, somewhere, we are inferior, perhaps even unnoticable, and yet here we are teaching dolphins cheap tricks. But one day...

• Foreword • (1968) • Carleton S. Coon
• Introduction • (1968) • Leon E. Stover and Harry Harrison
Neanderthal • (1956) • poem by Marijane Allen
Throwback • (1949) • L. Sprague de Camp
Apology for Man's Physique • (1968) • Earnest A. Hooton
The Renegade • (1943) • Lester del Rey
Eltonian Pyramid • (1952) • Ralph W. Dexter
Goldfish Bowl • (1942) • Robert A. Heinlein
The Second-Class Citizen • (1963) • Damon Knight
Culture • (1944) • Jerry Shelton
The Man of the Year Million • (1893) • H. G. Wells
1,000,000 A.D. • (1893) • poem by Anonymous
In the Beginning • (1954) • Morton Klass
The Future of the Races of Man • (1965) • Carleton S. Coon
The Kon-Tiki Myth • (1960) • Robert C. Suggs
A Medal for Horatius • (1955) • Brig. Gen. William C. Hall
Omnilingual • [Federation • 1] • (1957) • H. Beam Piper
For Those Who Follow After • (1951) • Dean McLaughlin
A Preliminary Investigation of an Early Man Site in the Delaware River Valley • (1968) • Charles W. Ward and Timothy J. O'Leary
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema • (1966) • Horace Miner
The Wait • (1958) • Kit Reed
Everybodyovskyism in Cat City • (1968) • Lao Shaw
The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • Arthur C. Clarke
The Captives • (1953) • Julian Chain
Men in Space • (1968) • Harold D. Lasswell
Of Course • (1954) • Chad Oliver
• Afterword • (1968) • Leon E. Stover