Genus Homo (novel)

Genus Homo
	Dust-jacket of the first edition.
Authors	L. Sprague de Camp; P. Schuyler Miller
Cover artist	Edd Cartier
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Fantasy Press
Publication date	1950
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	ix, 225

Genus Homo is a

SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.^[1]^[2] It has also been translated into French, Italian

and German.

The book has the distinction of being one of de Camp's first science fiction novels and Miller's only novel. It is perhaps the earliest novel dealing with the afterwards popular theme of humanity being replaced by intelligent apes in the future, later epitomized by Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes.

Premise

A bus is trapped in the cave-in of a tunnel and its passengers are preserved for millennia in a state of suspended animation. When their vehicle is ultimately uncovered they awaken to a future in which humankind has vanished from the face of the earth, and

gorillas

have evolved to intelligence and become a dominant species. The preserved humans must now adjust to a world in which they have become obsolete.

Reception

Astounding's reviewer declared it to be "a delightful volume", citing its "humor, sound science, and certain sly digs at the history and events of our own time."^[4]

Relation to other works

The plot feature of other primates taking the place of an extinct humanity in the far future is also explored in de Camp's short story "Living Fossil" (1939).

References

^ "Orion Publishing Group's L. Sprague de Camp webpage". Orion Books. Archived from the original on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
^ Genus Homo eBook: L. Sprague deCamp, P. Schuyler Miller: Kindle Store. 29 September 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
^ "Galaxy's Five Star Shelf," Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1950, p.89.
Astounding Science Fiction
, May 1951, p. 151-52

Sources

Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 56–57.

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L. Sprague de Camp
Viagens
Interplanetarias
Krishna

"Finished" (1949)

The Queen of Zamba (1949)

The Hand of Zei (1950)

"Perpetual Motion" (1950)

"Calories" (1951)

The Virgin of Zesh (1953)

The Tower of Zanid (1958)

The Hostage of Zir (1977)

The Prisoner of Zhamanak (1982)

The Bones of Zora (1983)

The Swords of Zinjaban (1991)

Kukulkan

The Stones of Nomuru (1988)

The Venom Trees of Sunga (1992)

Other

"The Animal-Cracker Plot" (1949)

"The Colorful Character" (1949)

"Git Along!" (1950)

"The Inspector's Teeth" (1950)

"Summer Wear" (1950)

The Continent Makers (1951)

"The Galton Whistle" (1951)

Rogue Queen (1951)

Harold Shea

"The Roaring Trumpet" (1940)

"The Mathematics of Magic" (1940)

The Castle of Iron (1941/50)

The Wall of Serpents (1953)

The Green Magician (1954)

Sir Harold and the Gnome King (1990)

Sir Harold of Zodanga (1995)

Pusadian

The Tritonian Ring (1951)

"The Eye of Tandyla" (1951)

"The Owl and the Ape" (1951)

"The Hungry Hercynian" (1953)

"The Stronger Spell" (1953)

"Ka the Appalling" (1958)

"The Rug and the Bull" (1974)

"The Stone of the Witch Queen" (1977)

Novarian

The Goblin Tower (1968)

The Clocks of Iraz (1971)

"The Emperor's Fan" (1973)

The Fallible Fiend (1973)

The Unbeheaded King (1983)

The Honorable Barbarian (1989)

Neo-Napolitanian

The Incorporated Knight (1987)

The Pixilated Peeress (1991)

Conan
Novels

Conan and the Spider God (1980)

Conan of the Isles (1968)

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Conan the Buccaneer (1971)

Conan the Liberator (1979)

The Return of Conan (1957)

Short stories

"Black Sphinx of Nebthu" (1973)

"The Treasure of Tranicos" (1953)

"
Black Tears
" (1968)

"The Blood-Stained God" (1955)

"The Castle of Terror" (1969)

"The City of Skulls" (1967)

"The Curse of the Monolith" (1968)

"Drums of Tombalku" (1966)

The Flame Knife (1955/81)

"
The Frost Giant's Daughter
" Conan (1953)

"The Gem in the Tower" (1978)

"The God in the Bowl" (1952)

"The Hall of the Dead" (1967)

"
Hawks Over Shem
" (1955)

"The Ivory Goddess" (1978)

"The Lair of the Ice Worm" (1969)

"Legions of the Dead" (1978)

"Moon of Blood" (1978)

"The People of the Summit" (1970/78)

"Red Moon of Zembabwei" (1974)

"The Road of the Eagles" (1955)

"Shadows in the Dark" (1978)

"Shadows in the Skull" (1975)

"The Snout in the Dark" (1969)

"The Star of Khorala" (1978)

"The Thing in the Crypt" (1967)

"The Witch of the Mists" (1972)

"Wolves Beyond the Border" (1967)

Other
speculative
fiction
Novels

The Carnelian Cube (1948)

Genus Homo (1950)

The Glory That Was (1960)

The Great Fetish (1978)

Land of Unreason (1942)

Lest Darkness Fall (1941)

None but Lucifer (1939)

Solomon's Stone (1942)

Short stories

"Aristotle and the Gun" (1958)

"The Blue Giraffe" (1939)

"The Command" (1938)

"The Contraband Cow" (1942)

"Cornzan the Mighty" (1955)

"Divide and Rule" (1939)

"The Egg" (1956)

"Employment" (1939)

"The Gnarly Man" (1939)

"The Guided Man" (1952)

"A Gun for Dinosaur" (1956)

"The Hardwood Pile" (1940)

"The Hibited Man" (1949)

"Hyperpilosity" (1938)

"In-Group" (1952)

"Internal Combustion" (1956)

"The Isolinguals" (1937)

"Judgment Day" (1955)

"Let's Have Fun" (1957)

"Living Fossil" (1939)

"The Merman" (1938)

"Nothing in the Rules" (1939)

"The Reluctant Shaman" (1947)

"The Saxon Pretender" (1952)

"The Space Clause" (1952)

"The Stolen Dormouse" (1941)

"Throwback" (1949)

"The Wheels of If" (1940)

Historical fiction

The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate (1961)

The Arrows of Hercules (1965)

An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

The Golden Wind (1969)

Fiction edited

The Wolf Leader (1950)

Swords and Sorcery (1963)

The Spell of Seven (1965)

Conan the Warrior (1967)

The Fantastic Swordsmen (1967)

Conan the Conqueror (1967)

Warlocks and Warriors (1970)

3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1972)

Tales Beyond Time (1973)

Nonfiction
Science and
history

Inventions and Their Management (1937)

The Evolution of Naval Weapons (1947)

Antarctic Conquest (1949)

Engines
(1959)

The Heroic Age of American Invention (1961)

Man and Power (1961)

Energy and Power (1962)

The Ancient Engineers (1963)

Ancient Ruins and Archaeology (1964)

Elephant (1964)

Spirits, Stars, and Spells (1966)

The Story of Science in America (1967)

The Day of the Dinosaur (1968)

The Great Monkey Trial (1968)

Darwin and His Great Discovery (1972)

Great Cities of the Ancient World (1972)

The Ragged Edge of Science (1980)

The Fringe of the Unknown (1983)

The Ape-Man Within (1995)

Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants (1996)

Lit crit and
biography

Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages (1975)

The Conan Reader (1968)

Dark Valley Destiny (1983)

Lands Beyond (1952)

Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers (1976)

Lost Continents (1954)

Lovecraft: A Biography (1975)

The Miscast Barbarian (1975)

Science-Fiction Handbook (1953/75)

Time and Chance
(1996)

Nonfiction edited

The Conan Swordbook (1969)

The Conan Grimoire (1972)

To Quebec and the Stars (1976)

The Blade of Conan (1979)

The Spell of Conan (1980)

Poetry

Demons and Dinosaurs (1970)

Heroes and Hobgoblins (1981)

Phantoms and Fancies (1972)

Collections

The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953)

The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid (1983)

The Incomplete Enchanter (1941)

Wall of Serpents (1960)

The Compleat Enchanter (1975)

The Complete Compleat Enchanter (1989)

The Enchanter Reborn (1992)

The Exotic Enchanter (1995)

The Mathematics of Magic (2007)

The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales (1953)

The Reluctant King (1985)

Conan
(1967)

The Conan Chronicles (1989)

The Conan Chronicles 2 (1990)

Conan of Aquilonia (1977)

Conan of Cimmeria (1969)

Conan the Adventurer
(1966)

Conan the Avenger (1968)

Conan the Freebooter (1968)

Conan the Swordsman (1978)

Conan the Usurper (1967)

Conan the Wanderer (1968)

Sagas of Conan (2004)

Tales of Conan (1955)

The Treasure of Tranicos (1980)

Aristotle and the Gun (2002)

The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978)

Divide and Rule (1948)

Footprints on Sand (1981)

A Gun for Dinosaur (1963)

The Purple Pterodactyls (1980)

The Reluctant Shaman (1970)

Rivers of Time (1993)

Scribblings (1972)

Sprague de Camp's New Anthology (1953)

Tales from Gavagan's Bar (1953/78)

The Undesired Princess (1951)

The Virgin & the Wheels (1976)

The Wheels of If (1948)

Years in the Making
(2005)

About de Camp

GURPS Planet Krishna (1997)

The Enchanter Completed (2005)

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[1] "Orion Publishing Group's L. Sprague de Camp webpage". Orion Books. Archived from the original on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2019.

[2] Genus Homo eBook: L. Sprague deCamp, P. Schuyler Miller: Kindle Store. 29 September 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

[3] "Galaxy's Five Star Shelf," Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1950, p.89.

[4] Astounding Science Fiction
, May 1951, p. 151-52

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