Genesis by H. Beam Piper « Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction

Disaster strikes a ship carrying colonists from Mars 75,000 years ago.

Title: Genesis

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.

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