Also in Poul Anderson's Technic History and first published in an anthology of original stories:
"The Dipteroid Phenomenon" IN Four For The Future, ed., Harry Harrison, 1969.
In the Technic History, we know "The Dipteroid Phenomenon" as "The Sharing of Flesh."
Four authors each wrote two stories for Four For The Future:
Anderson's other story, "High Treason," is non-series;
James Blish's first story in this anthology, "A Hero's Life," was later expanded as "A Style in Treason" and incorporated into his Haertel Scholium, a non-linear future historical sequence;
although Brian Aldiss never wrote series, he made his second story a sequel to the first;
Harry Harrison was not only the editor but also one of the authors.
Of course, Anderson contributed to other original anthologies covering:
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Yeah, that was an... interesting mutation... that planet developed!
Kaor, Paul and Mr. Stirling!
Paul: "High Treason" is one of those Anderson stories I regret saying I don't have in any of my Andersonian books.
We really do need a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON.
Mr. Stirling: Too true, a less than satisfactory mutation forced the people of the lost Lokon colony to take desperate measures to survive.
Ad astra! Sean
"The Sharing of the Flesh" reminded me of real life instances of cannibalism & the drawbacks of it.
Particularly how in parts of New Guinea people would eat the flesh of honored relatives who had died naturally. This had the problem of transmitting the prion disease of 'Kuru' to people who ate the flesh of people who had died from it.
Kaor, Jim!
It's the old problem of what so often happens from eating any kind of tainted meat--picking up whatever disease the animal or victim of cannibalism had.
Ad astra! Sean
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