Friday, 25 June 2021

Homo Aquaticus

"The Horn of Time the Hunter."

Kith guns are called fulgurators.

The inhabitants of the oceanic planet:

manlike;
a meter taller than a Kith;
naked;
white-skinned;
completely hairless;
domed head;
feet and fingers long and webbed;
a fin on head and back and at each elbow and heel;
bony faces;
sunken eyes;
no external ears;
a skin flap connecting nose and mouth;
wooden spears with flint tips;
metal tridents;
knives. slung at waists.

The blurb wrongly implies that this collection presents a single narrative of nuclear war followed by interstellar travel.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I question whether 20,000 years or more would have been LONG enough for the human colonists of this forgotten planet to evolve and change so drastically, however. But, still, "The Horn of Time the Hunter" was good reading!

Ad astra! Sean