Apeman, Spaceman

by Leon Stover (Editor), Harry Harrison (Editor), David Pelham (Illustrator)

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 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

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Anthologies, Short Stories

374 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

Reviews

[Harsh Rao · Rating 5 out of 5]

an outstanding anthology, one of my favourite ever.

[Shawn]

Placeholder review here for "The Man Of The Year Million" by H.G. Wells - which is not a story but a short article or essay postulating what man will be like that far in the future. It mostly sticks to physical/biological changes as opposed to social projections. Okay, I guess.

[Sully Augustine · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars out of 5 - I re-read the hard copy that I got lo those many years ago when Leon Stover taught my required anthropology class at Illinois Tech. It's got a few good science fiction stories in it, but it was most interesting as a sort of time capsule glimpse at 1950/1960 worldviews. We've come a long way, baby.

[Don Diego]

Anthology of scifi by several authors.

[Rebecca Haslam · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book confirmed for me the old-school style science fiction books really aren't my thing - so much so that if you asked me to even summarise the story of this book, I couldn't - I read it at 3am in a desperate attempt for something to help me sleep. I've no doubt this book has delighted many, but I'm glad to be done with it.