--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: <snip> > > I think there was also a much more thoughtful > story in > > the same collection, about a captive community of > > (genetically enhanced?) chimpanzees: after the > death of a well-liked researcher, one of the chimps > > confuses the idea of Heaven with dead chimpanzees > > being resurrected as humans, and so concludes that > killing chimps is a good and holy thing... > > The second story mentioned is found in _Sacred > Visions_, an anthology of > Catholic-related SF. It's "The Pope of the Chimps" > by Robert > Silverberg. If you're interested in Catholicism in > SF, _Sacred Visions_ > is a nice anthology. (If you're interested in > Catholicism in fantasy > dressed up as SF, I'd recommend reading stuff by > Christopher Stasheff, > but it's not as well-written as, say, _A Canticle > for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller.)
Thanks - it's infuriating to only partially remember stuff! Agree about Stasheff. Debbi who is also not a Catholic, but has good friends who are... :) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
