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

[Stefan li Rous]

Thank you. That was one of several of them that looked interesting to  
me.

Somehow I seem to buy books faster than I can read them, though...

Stefan

On Sep 22, 2009, at 10:13 PM, galefridus at optimum.net wrote:

> 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.

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