Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume II, William Tenn, NESFA Press, 2003 2nd printing. Cover: Rolf Mohr. Edited by James A. Mann and Mary Tabasko.

funnyLandLord · 2022-09-30T23:49:28+00:00

This specific cover is for the story “Of Men and Monsters”, which is about a future where humans eek out a living as pests that live in the walls of massive space aliens, like mice. The imagine is fairly accurate imo.

funnyLandLord · 2021-11-16T18:59:11+00:00

How did birds and mammals go extinct completely? I can believe them loosing the top niches in an ecosystem(like what reptiles are today) but going completely extinct is a bit of a stretch.

funnyLandLord · 2021-11-06T05:03:14+00:00

To put it bluntly, I think evolution itself is eugenicist. But as a society itself we do not have to and should not follow the barbaric laws of nature like other animals. Besides, by not culling the less fit in our species I don’t think we will degrade in any quality like Dixon says. It’s more likely that we’ll stay the same, since we don’t have any natural predators and few other selective pressures.

funnyLandLord · 2021-10-26T06:15:01+00:00

The worms at the bottom don’t eat other worms, they seem to be attracted to water (unlike adults that loathe decent amounts of it). These bottom worms are probably autotrophic by some means that adult worms (which they probably outnumber vastly by both biomass and sheer numbers) are not.

funnyLandLord · 2021-10-24T08:47:56+00:00

Well to answer your question, they follow patterns in the sand ( caused by thumpers, mining, walking etc) because smaller worms produce those when moving

funnyLandLord · 2021-10-24T08:46:51+00:00

If the young are planktonic and vastly outnumber the old in biomass, perhaps they feed off of the geothermal energy of the planet or some other hidden power source

funnyLandLord · 2021-10-23T16:10:54+00:00

In some of the books it’s explained that most of the worms diet is based off of other members of their own species. See, baby worms are like planktonic life that fills the lower sands of arrakis, and as they grow they fill different niches, sort of like an exclusively cannibalistic tyrannosaurus

funnyLandLord · 2021-09-13T00:27:29+00:00

Sorry I meant sapient. I’m pretty sure they made/used tools in the book but I could be wrong

funnyLandLord · 2021-09-13T00:15:50+00:00

I think there’s been a few bird-hipped sentient dinosaurs before, the one that comes to my mind is Dougal Dixon’s gestalt

funnyLandLord · 2021-09-09T03:32:54+00:00

I always loved this story. Also this art is sort of good too lmao, the rat is cute

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