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james_davis_nicollThe Cage
How odd. The story this is based on got mentioned recently on rec.arts.sf.written. In it a group of humans have to try to convince their alien captors that the humans are as intelligent as their captors. The situation is complicated by the fact that the humans have through misfortune been denied all tools and even clothing; as well, they are not the most imaginative group of humans.
There was a moment early on when I wondered if this story was one of the ones that inspired Joanna Russ' We Who Are About To....
Rememberance To Come
This by Gene Wolfe and it's mostly interesting as a reminder of how terrified of students people were back in the 1960s.
How odd. The story this is based on got mentioned recently on rec.arts.sf.written. In it a group of humans have to try to convince their alien captors that the humans are as intelligent as their captors. The situation is complicated by the fact that the humans have through misfortune been denied all tools and even clothing; as well, they are not the most imaginative group of humans.
There was a moment early on when I wondered if this story was one of the ones that inspired Joanna Russ' We Who Are About To....
Rememberance To Come
This by Gene Wolfe and it's mostly interesting as a reminder of how terrified of students people were back in the 1960s.
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Re: Queen Bee
Date: 2013-11-16 12:03 am (UTC)