I Read Stories: Big Ancestor

Big Ancestor by F L Wallace

In this 1954 story humans of various sorts are scattered across the galaxy and their wide and varied family tree makes them the envy of other species. Now they think they’ve found the original source of man and the mystery of their ancestors. However they need an alien pilot and the exact nature of the ancestor will not be what they expect.

This classic Science Fiction tale has lots of clever bits that fit together well. Perhaps a little too well as it telegraphs the two reveals at the end fairly obviously. Of course this might be its influence on the sixty years of fiction that have followed, or perhaps even descended from it...

Read This: For an entertaining if slightly old fashioned SF story
Don’t Read This: If you don’t like old SF or if the slightly dubious spectrum of human development and how it interacts with the romantic inclinations of the characters are likely to throw you completely out.
Online Here: Big Ancestor at Project Gutenberg.

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