''Apeman, Spaceman: Anthropological Science Fiction'' is an
anthology
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of
science fiction
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short stories edited by Harry Harrison and Leon E. Stover. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in June 1968, with a paperback edition following from
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in March 1970. The first British editions were issued in hardcover by Rapp & Whiting in October 1968 and in paperback by Penguin Books in November 1972 (reprinted in 1979). The book has been translated into
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The book collects eighteen short stories and novelettes by various science fiction authors, interspersed with a foreword, introduction, poems and essays by the editors and others. The stories were previously published from 1893-1966 in various science fiction and other magazines.
Contents
*"Foreword" (
Carleton S. Coon
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L. Sprague de Camp
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Anson MacDonald
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)
*"The Second-Class Citizen" (
Damon Knight
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(Anonymous)
*" In the Beginning" ( Morton Klass)
*"The Future of the Races of Man" ssay(
Carleton S. Coon
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Roy Lewis
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H. Beam Piper
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Kit Reed
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The Nine Billion Names of God
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" (
Arthur C. Clarke
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Chad Oliver
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'' called the anthology " ambitious, and for the most part rewarding, melange of science fiction, anthropology, and nonfiction about the future" featuring both "tried and true stalwarts" like Clarke, Oliver, Heinlein, Knight, and Del Rey, and "other lesser known writers." Hall's and Suggs's contributions are singled out for particular comment, the former as "one of the most devastating and original satires on Army red tape through the ages we have ever read," and the latter as "both good anthropology and interesting at the same time, no mean achievement." The book is summed up as " the main, a thoughtfully conceived assortment."
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'' considered the book "a handy and stimulating anthology for the student who might wonder whether what would happen if Pithecanthropus were still around—as a football player for instance. The stories are top notch, from Arthur C. Clarke's Nine Billion Names of God to Peanuts. What if a galactic survey team picked an Eskimo as representative of Earth's highest form of civilization; if dolphins had to train man to survive in their world after the holocaust; if there were a lost tribe of Neanderthals somewhere? Mr. Stover contributes an entertaining lesson at the end to demonstrate where authors went both right and wrong and the book should become a teacher's pet in this science."Review in ''
Kirkus Reviews
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'', April 15, 1968, p. 486.
The anthology was also reviewed by Yole G. Sills in ''
American Anthropologist
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'' v. 71, no. 4, 1969, pp. 798-799.
The anthology was also reviewed by Charlie Brown in ''
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'' no. 55, June 3, 1970, and P. Schuyler Miller in ''
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
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