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Adventure1 Publications
Adventure1 Publishing
Category:
Science Fiction
Type: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781879338166
Four short sci-fi stories in this compilation, all with a similar theme, yet each is totally unique. People are accustomed to being the only analytically thinking species on the planet. Find out what happens when pets evolve to become masters, and former masters devolve to become pets or slaves war beasts or meat.
Sound a bit outragous? I'd wager you won't think it's so far-fetched when you read the four sci-fi short stories in this booklet. A theme runs through all four stories, yet each is totally unique unto itself. In two of the stories, former pets become masters, and humans devolve to become their pets or slaves.
In the other two stories, two species develop rational thinking independently, the ape-like beings are subservient to the other species. Read how humans devolve while concurrently, their former pets develop superior analytical thinking abilities.
It's not written in 'hocus pocus fairy-tale-land' style, but rather it's based on hard science and evolutionary possibilities. After reading these fast-paced stories, you'll never look at dogs, horses, elephants, or swine in the same way.
Excerpt
A storage facility on Mars housed a genome library. It was located near Mar's southern area, so it didn't need artificial cooling apparatus. Within frozen compartments, were categorized genomes of nearly all organisms from Earth, from all phyla. Each organism category was marked with pictures, as it was suspected, even hundreds of years prior, that Martian inhabitants might not retain their intellect or ability to read over ensuing centuries. The facility had been built 398 years prior and would have fallen in to complete neglect had not one peophant, named Pral, made the effort to check on its status.
One martian day, Pral slogged to the facility in his snowshoes, and noticed the section marked with an elephant-shaped logo had the container holding its eggs starting to melt. The solar operated back-up freezing apparatus had long since quit operating, and because Mars was heating up, Pral wondered what could be done. Two of his fellows in the dome knew enough about artificial insemination to possibly be able to do anything useful with the eggs before they thawed and became useless.
He talked his buddies in to helping to bring the eggs to term. They picked the embryo dishes which were least thawed and which appeared special because they were housed in red colored jars.
Convincing elephant females to take the eggs within their bodies was easier than the three peophants had imagined. All they had to do was tell the elephants that these eggs were doomed to die unless given a chance at life, and the females agreed to host them. Getting semen from male elephants would have been impossible for any peophant, but that too became a breeze when one of the females winked and assured the peophants she could deliver the goods. Sure enough, the next morning, she had a liter jar half full of semen. It was thought best to not ask how she had accomplished that task.
Fresh semen added to 45 defrosted eggs yielded 21 which appeared to have been successfully fertilized. Those were self administered to eight healthy female elephant volunteers. Fifteen months later, four babies were born, one male and three females. But these had long reddish-brown hair. They were half-mastodon calves, products of genetic material taken from frozen flesh found in Alberta in the late 20th century.
During ensuing decades, pygmy elephants cross-bred with the half-mastodons, and yielded a sturdy breed now called 'elemen.' They were as large as full sized African elephants, had thick reddish-brown hair. Both females and male adults had tusks, though males' were considerably stouter and longer. Elemen also inherited the analytical thinking abilities of pygmy elephants, who were offshoots of those especially bred near the desert alongside the place where San Diego used to be. That spot was now growing coral reefs, as it slipped in to the sea during San Andrea’s' 'Monster Earthquake' of 2122.
Elemen continued to be adept at transferring their cognitive abilities to their young. Additionally, they encouraged their babies to develop mental and tool-making skills as fast as possible. Grazing within martian jungles and plains was satisfactory all year 'round. Their prodigious amounts of poop greatly enhanced the flora at ever place they visited.
Elemen, with their thick fur, didn't mind the colder areas near the poles. Indeed, one of their favorite places to romp was the snow-graced areas there. They learned to make large toboggans in order to slip down slopes.
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