| Half Past Human | |
.jpg/200px-HalfPastHuman(1stEd).jpg) Cover of first edition (paperback) |
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| Author | T. J. Bass |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Hive series |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| Publication date | 1971 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 279 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-345-02306-4 |
| Followed by | The Godwhale |
Half Past Human, by T. J. Bass is a fixup science fiction novel published in 1971. T J Bass, real name Thomas J Bassler MD (1932 -) is an American Science fiction author and doctor, having graduated from Virginia Commonwealth The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view The Ballantine Publishing Group, better known as Ballantine Books, is a major American book Publisher founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine. Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding. The Godwhale is a Science fiction Novel by American novelist T T J Bass, real name Thomas J Bassler MD (1932 -) is an American Science fiction author and doctor, having graduated from Virginia Commonwealth A fix-up (or fixup) is a Novel created from short stories that may or may not have been initially related or previously published Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Two short stories were combined and fleshed out to form this novel: "Half Past Human", first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in December of 1969, and "G. Galaxy Science Fiction was a digest-size Science fiction magazine, the creation of noted editor H I. T. A. R. ", first published in If in November and December of 1970. If was an American Science fiction magazine launched in March 1952 by Quinn Publications owned by James L The novel belongs to the Hive series.
Half Past Human was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1971. The Nebula Award is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA for the best Science fiction / Fantasy fiction Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Plot summary
Bass' future Earth is a single species environment in which the sum of the biota serves as its food chain. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. Food chains, also called food networks and/or trophic networks, describe the feeding relationships between species within an Ecosystem. Human science has created the four toed Nebish, a pallid, short lived and highly programmable humanoid who has had the elements that do not facilitate an underground Hive existence (aggression, curiosity, etc. The term " humanoid " refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a Human. ) bred out of it. The five toed humans (called buckeyes) wander the biofarms that keep the trillions of Earth's Nebish population fed. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology All animals other than man are extinct, so meat comes from other humans (and the occasional rat). In Biology and Ecology, extinction is the cessation of existence of a Species or group of taxa. The conflict between the Hives and the roving bands of five toed original Humans, who are reduced to savagery and hunted like vermin by Hive Security, forms the backdrop of this novel. Vermin is a term applied to various animal species regarded as pests or nuisances and especially to those associated with the carrying of Disease.
Something strange is happening, as the primitive buckeyes are showing signs of a purpose whose goal is unclear and probably dangerous to the balance of the Hive. There seems to be a third party stirring the pot, campaigning in a relentlessly successful battle with the computer minds that keep this "brave new world" in balance. Agendas beyond the ken of their protagonists begin to come into play, and an epic battle between the Four- and the Five-toed is looming.
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