Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!gutfreund.umass-cs@UDel-Relay From: gutfreund.umass-cs@UDel-Relay@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Charles W. Runyon Message-ID: <3639@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Aug-83 00:08:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3639 Posted: Fri Aug 5 00:08:00 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 09:21:58 EDT Lines: 27 From: Steven GutfreundIs anyone familiar with the work of Charles W. Runyon? Is he primarily and SF writer? Can anyone come up with a list of books he has authored? The novel I read (a one word title whose name escapes me) dealt with the state of Homo Sap after its first encounter with Aliens. The main part of the story is about the remaining Homo Sap-like species. Lots of genetic engineering had taken place: warrier breeds with only 200 word vocabularies, intellectual breeds with long lives but no power drives (the in-power breed wanted to remain in power, a typical phenomenon if one looks at 1960's history) ESP breeds, and outsider breeds. The in-power breed decides that it must create a super-human breed to go out and find the Alien species and wipe it out before it decides humans are too much of a nuisance and wipes out humanity once and for all. They do this via cross breeding of the remaining species. The story took many novel turns. Basically I think the story was stuffed with as many new twists as Farmer's: Riders of the Purple Wage. The ending was pretty spectacular. - Steven Gutfreund Gutfreund.umass-cs@udel-relay