Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction » Anthropology http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:22:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 One Million Years BFE by Merrie Haskell http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/one-million-years-bfe-by-merrie-haskell/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/one-million-years-bfe-by-merrie-haskell/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:25:10 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1740 Title: One Million Years B.F.E.: Diary of an Anthropologist in Exile

Author: Merrie Haskell

Length: short story

First Publication: Town Drunk, 2006

What the Story is About: Amusing story of an anthropologist exiled to live with early hominids.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/one-million-years-bfe-by-merrie-haskell/feed/ 0 Pithecanthropus Blues by Eric Brown http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/pithecanthropus-blues-by-eric-brown/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/pithecanthropus-blues-by-eric-brown/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:44:31 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1582 Title: Pithecanthropus Blues

Author: Eric Brown

Length: short story

First Publication: The Time-Lapsed Man and other stories, 1990

Awards:

What the Story is About: A former Engineman for the Canterbury Line has seizures that carry him to humanity’s prehistoric past.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/pithecanthropus-blues-by-eric-brown/feed/ 0 Before Adam by Jack London http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/before-adam-by-jack-london/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/before-adam-by-jack-london/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:22:58 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1566 Title: Before Adam

Author: Jack London

Length: novella

First Publication: Everybody’s Magazine (serialized), 1906-1907

What the Story is About: A modern man has visions of a prehistoric society of Cave People, Fire People and Tree People. It “builds upon Social Darwinism and London’s belief in the persistence of racial memories“.

Alternate story links: Google Books (includes map and illustrations), Project Gutenburg

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/before-adam-by-jack-london/feed/ 0 London Bone by Michael Moorcock http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/london-bone-by-michael-moorcock/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/london-bone-by-michael-moorcock/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:11:44 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1487 Title: London Bone

Author: Michael Moorcock

Length: novelette

First Publication: New Worlds Anthology, 1997

What the Story is About: A West End ticket scalper finds lucrative work selling pieces of bone from London’s ancient clay-pits.

Listen to the Audio version at StarShipSofa

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Author: Steven Popkes

Length: short story

First Publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2009

What the Story is About: “a look at how Neanderthals might cope with the modern world.”

Note: in PDF format only

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Author: Ted Kosmatka

Length: short story

First Publication: Seeds of Change Anthology, 2008

What the Story is About: From the introduction at Seeds of Change:

As is probably evident from the title, “N-Words” is a story about racism. The subject has long been of scientific interest to Kosmatka; in college, he read every issue of a prominent scientific journal, dating back nearly 100 years, and it changed his whole view of science. “I learned that science is fallible,” Kosmatka said, “and that in the wrong hands, it can absolutely be racist.”

Only audio version currently available online. You can read an excerpt at Seeds of Change, as well as Kosmatka’s afterword to the story.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/n-words-by-ted-kosmatka/feed/ 0 Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/inherit-the-stars-by-james-p-hogan/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/inherit-the-stars-by-james-p-hogan/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:56:28 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=1110 Title: Inherit the Stars

Author: James P. Hogan

Length: novel

First Publication: 1977

What the Story is About: First of Hogan’s Giants series of novels. When an ancient spacesuit-clad human body is found on the moon it throws man’s origins into question.

Related Biology in Science Fiction blog post: And there were giants in those days

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Author: H. Beam Piper

Length: short fiction

First Publication: Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, 1951

What the Story is About: One of Piper’s Paratime stories. Disaster strikes a ship carrying human colonists from Mars 75,000 years ago.

Was this ill-fated expedition the end of a proud, old race—or the beginning of a new one?

There are strange gaps in our records of the past. We find traces of man-like things—but, suddenly, man appears, far too much developed to be the “next step” in a well-linked chain of evolutionary evidence. Perhaps something like the events of this story furnishes the answer to the riddle.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/genesis-by-h-beam-piper/feed/ 0 Excerpts from the Discussion of the Controlled Vibration Theory of Communication Among the Un-Kin by Sarah Zettel http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/excerpts-from-the-discussion-of-the-controlled-vibration-theory-of-communication-among-the-un-kin-by-sarah-zettel/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/excerpts-from-the-discussion-of-the-controlled-vibration-theory-of-communication-among-the-un-kin-by-sarah-zettel/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:15:04 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=981 Title: Excerpts from the Discussion of the Controlled Vibration Theory of Communication Among the Un-Kin

Author: Sarah Zettel (with Laura Woody)

Length: short story

First Publication: Analog, 1994

What the Story is About: Learning to speak with aliens is a difficult task, even for scientists.

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/excerpts-from-the-discussion-of-the-controlled-vibration-theory-of-communication-among-the-un-kin-by-sarah-zettel/feed/ 0 The Furthest Schorr by Paul Di Filippo http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-furthest-schorr-32-fugues-on-the-paintings-of-todd-schorr-by-paul-di-filippo/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-furthest-schorr-32-fugues-on-the-paintings-of-todd-schorr-by-paul-di-filippo/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:42:44 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=930 Title: The Furthest Schorr: 32 Fugues on the Paintings of Todd Schorr

Author: Paul Di Filippo

Length: short stories

First Publication: Interzone, 2006 and Shuteye For the Timebroker, 2006

What the Story is About: Short short stories based on surreal paintings by Todd Schorr. A few with a bioscience bent:
• The Deviled Egg
•  The Venus of Augmentation
• The Hunter-Gatherer

(Link button goes to Paul Di Filippo’s main fiction page, which lists all of his free stories)

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-furthest-schorr-32-fugues-on-the-paintings-of-todd-schorr-by-paul-di-filippo/feed/ 0 The Prophet of Flores by Ted Kosmatka http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-prophet-of-flores-by-ted-kosmatka/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-prophet-of-flores-by-ted-kosmatka/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:05:05 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=508 The Prophet of Title: The Prophet of Flores

Author: Ted Kosmatka

Length: short story

First Publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2007

What the Story is About: In an alternate world where young Earth creationism – rather than evolution – is the reigning scientific theory, discovery of Homo floriensis (“Hobbit”) bones causes a genetic anthropologist to question his beliefs.

Note: only an audio version of this story is currently available

]]> http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/the-prophet-of-flores-by-ted-kosmatka/feed/ 0 Peking Man by Robert J. Sawyer http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/peking-man-by-robert-j-sawyer/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/peking-man-by-robert-j-sawyer/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:27:00 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=494 Title: Peking Man

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Length: short story

First Publication: Dark Destiny anthology, 1996

Awards: Prix Aurora Award, 1997

What the Story is About: A secret history is revealed through the bones of a missing fossil.

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