Apeman, Spaceman: An Anthology of Anthropological Science Fiction

by Leon Stover (Editor), Harry Harrison (Editor)

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

Genres: Science Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories

360 pages, Hardcover

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]

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.