Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

by Mike Resnick

One got the feeling that the day the first primitive man looked up and saw the stars, the galaxy’s days as a haven of peace and freedom were numbered. And yet they came out to the stars not just with their lusts and their hatred and their fears, but with their technology and their medicine, their heroes as well as their villains. Most of the races of the galaxy had been painted by the Creator in pastels; Men were primaries.