[Sca-librarians] Looking for a book and two movies

[galefridus at optimum.net]

I only know the answer to Number 4 -- it's a short story by James Blish, titled "Surface Tension," and it's available in the collection _Science Fiction Hall of Fame_ vol. 1, edited by Robert Silverberg.

-- Galefridus

> 4. A book about mankind settling the universe. In one episode, a
>
> colonizing ship crash lands on a "water world" where they decide
> to
> produce miniature people with gills and also lungs. The story
> then
> works out a biological ship created by their descendants which
> travels from the bottom to a small dry space. In another
> episode, a
> ship run by people proud of belonging to the original type seeds
> a
> world with a being that resembles a walrus. The world turns out
> to be
> earth. This book is not First and Last Men.
>