Apeman, Spaceman: An Anthology of Anthropological Science Fiction
Language: English
Published by Penguin, 1972
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A fascinating collection of science fiction stories that explore humanity through the lens of anthropology, examining culture, evolution, and society across imagined worlds. The anthology brings together a range of writers, each offering a unique perspective on what it means to be human. Thought-provoking and imaginative, it blends speculative fiction with social and cultural insight.
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- Title
- Apeman, Spaceman: An Anthology of Anthropological Science Fiction
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Publication year
- 1972
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140034854
- ISBN 13
- 9780140034851
- Illustrator
- David Pelham
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 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
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