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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Stories where H. sap. gets its come-uppance
Message-ID: <769@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 11:42:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: cybvax0.769
Posted: Mon Sep 23 11:42:06 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:30:28 EDT
References: <3597@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <846@ncoast.UUCP> <794@inuxd.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

In article <794@inuxd.UUCP> keen@inuxd.UUCP (D Keen) writes:
> There is a "classic" short story whose title and author will,
> I'm sure, be supplied by some other netter in which a group of
> non-humans and humans of various evolutionary types are
> searching for the origin of humanity as a class.  The gist of
> the conclusion is that humanity was a pest aboard a large and
> temporally different races spaceships, ala, the rat, aboard
> sailing ships.

In William Tenn's "Of Men And Monsters", the protagonists come to the
conclusion that the best niche for humans is as pests on the alien
conquorers' spaceships.

I highly recommend all of Tenn's SF.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh


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