Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!crash!bnw From: bnw@crash.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Boring races Message-ID: <3792@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 04:01:31 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3792 Posted: Thu Sep 26 04:01:31 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 09:21:35 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 From:judith@proper.UUCP (judith) writes: >Anybody seen an interesting story about a boring race (i.e. us) ? >Margaret St. Clair wrote a story in the '50s or so about a boring >race. It, and they, were called "Prott." They did nothing but >bore humans. I'll have to appeal to the net for the title and author of this one. I read a book some years ago about invaders who conquer Earth and then discover, to their considerable dismay, that they have conquered a race that is more intelligent. One specific instance in the book: Some human prisoners are being taken to a POW camp by alien guards holding an alien rifle in one hand and a knife in the other. A prisoner is explaining how to make a bayonet as they walk. One of the major aliens is (as best I recall) General Horsip. The book is very funny, well done, and ends in a rather unexpected manner. /Bruce N. Wheelock/ uucp: {ihnp4, cbosgd, sdcsvax, noscvax}!crash!bnw