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First published in 1989 by editors Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/MartinHGreenberg. This GenreAnthology contains fifteen ScienceFiction stories that were first published in 1957, ranging in length from ShortStory to {{Novelette}}. The introduction describes "the world outside reality" first, marking significant historical events, sports trivia, and literary publications. The "real world" is the science fiction and fantasy pop culture.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "{{Literature/Strikebreaker}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}", by Creator/HBeamPiper
* "Literature/TheMileLongSpaceship", by Creator/KateWilhelm
* "Literature/CallMeJoe", by Creator/PoulAnderson
* "Literature/YouKnowWillie", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell
* "Literature/HuntingMachine", by Creator/CarolEmshwiller
* "Literature/WorldOfAThousandColors", by Creator/RobertSilverberg
* "Literature/LetsBeFrank", by Creator/BrianWAldiss
* "Literature/TheCage", by Creator/ABertramChandler
* "Literature/TheEducationOfTigressMcCardle", by Creator/CMKornbluth
* "Literature/TheTunesmith", by Creator/LloydBiggleJr.
* "Literature/ALointOfPaw", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/GamePreserve", by Creator/RogPhillips
* "{{Literature/Soldier}}", by Creator/HarlanEllison
* "Literature/TheLastManLeftInTheBar", by Creator/CMKornbluth
[[/index]]
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!!''Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 19 (1957)'' provides examples of:
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Creator/HBeamPiper's "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}": A female archaeologist faces the skepticism of her colleagues when she tries to translate the long dead language of Martian, despite the fact that there could be no possible 'Rosetta Stone' ([[CommonTongue a message with a known language paired with the same message in the unknown language]]). She finds it anyway when they come across the Periodic Table of Elements in a Martian university.
* ArtificialHuman: Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/CallMeJoe": The titular character is the pseudojovian lifeform atrificially constructed by humans to live on the surface of {{UsefulNotes/Jupiter}} and act as a [[TelepathicSpacemen puppet controlled by a human on Ganymede]]. Joe specifically is controlled by Edward Anglesey, [[NotDisabledInVR a cripple]]. They created dozens of others, as well, for teams of esmen to control and conduct experiments on Jupiter's surface.
* {{Biography}}: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the fifteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.
* CommonTongue: Creator/HBeamPiper's "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}": Science turns out to be something of a universal language. Archaeologists studying Martian ruins first begin to make progress on translating their language from their scientific publications, with a periodic table being equivalent to the Rosetta Stone.
* FirstContactMath: Creator/HBeamPiper's "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}": This {{novellette}} uses the Periodic Table as [[CommonTongue a universal key]]. It helps that the Martian language tends to make new words by combining existing ones, so that (for example) the word for "metal" is part of the names of various metallic elements.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Creator/KateWilhelm's "Literature/TheMileLongSpaceship": The story [[SwitchingPOV switches]] between Allen, recovering in a hospital room on Earth, and the aliens aboard the titular starship in intergalactic space. The aliens are seeking out other lifeforms, and Earth's ability to utilize [[AtomPunk atomics]] and [[CasualInterplanetaryTravel travel between the planets in the solar system]] make humanity/Earth rate as an excellent find. However, it is difficult to locate humanity's solar system from the knowledge of the average person, so they "encourage" him to study and go back to school.
* KarmicTransformation: Creator/TheodoreRCogswell's "Literature/YouKnowWillie": Willie [=McCracken=], a [[TheKlan klansman]] who shot an African-American to death, is transformed by [[EthnicMagician Aunt Hattie, a very old and very black witch]], into the body of the dead man. The people who had been his fellow klansmen hunt him down and kill him (again).
* TheKlan: Creator/TheodoreRCogswell's "Literature/YouKnowWillie": Willie [=McCracken=] is a Thrice High Warlock of the local chapter of The Knights of the Flaming Sword. In other words, a klansman. He and his fellow klansmen kill the same African-American twice (the second time was Willie after a KarmicTransformation).
* MileLongShip: Creator/KateWilhelm's "Literature/TheMileLongSpaceship": Although [[ImpliedTrope implied]] by the title, only [[TitleDrop one line in the story]] indicates the size of the titular ship; "the mile-long spaceship in his dream".
* NotDisabledInVR: Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/CallMeJoe": "Joe" is the character played by Edward Anglesey, on {{UsefulNotes/Jupiter}}. Joe is a [[ArtificialHuman pseudojovian manufactured]] to live on the surface of Jupiter. Since Anglesey was paralyzed as a young man, he operates an [[PsychicLink esprojector that conveys his thoughts]] along a [[{{Technobabble}} psibeam]] to fully immerse himself in the pseudojovian's mind. He eventually leaves his human body and lives entirely in his pseudojovian body.
* OneWordTitle:
** "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}", by Creator/HBeamPiper
** "{{Literature/Soldier}}", by Creator/HarlanEllison
* RobotDog: Creator/CarolEmshwiller's "Literature/HuntingMachine": The titular hunting machine is referred to as a dog by its human owners. The third-person narration occasionally shows what passes for thought by the machine; heartbeat normal, respiration normal. It's designed to be grey-green to camouflage itself in temperate forest environments and was built with six legs.
* ShoutOut: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1957:
** ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth''
** ''Film/The27thDay''
** ''Film/TheAbominableSnowmanOfTheHimalayas''
** ''Film/TheAmazingColossalMan''
** ''Series/AmericanBandstand''
** ''Film/AndGodCreatedWoman'', starring Creator/BrigitteBardot and directed by Creator/RogerVadim.
** Creator/IsaacAsimov's books, ''Literature/TheNakedSun'' and ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough''
** ''Magazine/AstoundingScienceFiction'' earned the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best American magazine.
** ''Film/AttackOfTheCrabMonsters''
** ''Film/BeginningOfTheEnd''
** ''Literature/BigPlanet'', by Creator/JackVance
** ''Film/TheBlackScorpion''
** Music/PatBoone's song, "Love Letters in the Sand".
** ''Film/TheBridgeOverTheRiverKwai''
** Creator/MelBrooks is referenced.
** ''Literature/ByLovePossessed'', by Creator/JamesGouldCozzens
** Creator/MarcChagall painted his self-portrait, entitled "Self-Portrait".
** Creator/ArthurCClarke's books, ''Literature/TheDeepRange'' and ''Literature/TalesFromTheWhiteHart''.
** ''Literature/ColonialSurvey'', by Creator/MurrayLeinster
** ''Literature/{{Compulsion}}'', by Creator/MeyerLevin
** ''Literature/TheCosmicPuppets'', by Creator/PhilipKDick
** ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein''
** ''Literature/CycleOfFire'', by Creator/HalClement
** ''Film/TheCyclops''
** ''Film/TheDeadlyMantis''
** ''Literature/DoomsdayMorning'', by Creator/CLMoore
** ''Literature/EarthmansBurdern'', by Creator/PoulAnderson and Creator/GordonRDickson
** ''Film/EnemyFromSpace''
** ''Film/TheGiantClaw''
** ''Literature/GimpelTheFool'', by Creator/IsaacBashevisSinger
** ''Literature/TheGreenOdyssey'', by Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer
** ''Series/HaveGunWillTravel''
** ''Literature/TheHungerAndOtherStories'', by Creator/CharlesBeaumont
** ''Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingMan''
** ''Film/IWasATeenageFrankenstein''
** ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf''
** ''Literature/KidsSayTheDarndestThings!'', by Creator/ArtLinkLetter
** ''Film/{{Kronos}}''
** ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver''
** ''Series/{{Maverick}}''
** ''Literature/MasterOfLifeAndDeath'', by Creator/RobertSilverberg
** ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos'', by Creator/JohnWyndham
** ''Film/TheMonolithMonsters''
** ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'', and its song "Seventy-Six Trombones".
** ''Magazine/NewWorlds'' earned the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best British magazine.
** ''Literature/OccamsRazor'', by Creator/DavidDuncan
** ''Literature/OnTheBeach'', by Creator/NevilShute
** ''Film/PathsOfGlory'', directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick
** ''Series/PerryMason''
** ''Literature/PilgramageToEarth'', by Creator/RobertSheckley
** Creator/FrederikPohl's ''Literature/SlaveShip'' and ''Literature/TheCaseAgaisntTomorrow''
** Music/ElvisPresley's songs, "Music/AllShookUp" and "Music/JailhouseRock".
** ''Film/ThePrinceAndTheShowgirl'', starring Creator/MarilynMonroe
** ''Film/{{Rodan}}''
** ''Literature/RogueInSpace'', by Creator/FredricBrown
** ''Magazine/SaturnTheMagazineOfScienceFiction'', edited by Creator/DonaldAWollheim, began publication.
** ''Fanfic/ScienceFictionTimes'' earned the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best fan magazine.
** ''Literature/TheShoresOfSpace'', by Creator/RichardMatheson
** ''Literature/TheShoudedPlanet'', by Creator/RobertRandall (a PenName for Creator/RandallGarrett and Creator/RobertSilverberg).
** ''Literature/StarBorn'', by Creator/AndreNorton
** ''Magazine/SpaceScienceFictionMagazine'', edited by Creator/LyleKenyonEngel, began publishing, but didn't successfully complete the year.
** ''Literature/TheydRatherBeRight'', by Creator/MarkClifton and Creator/FrankRiley
** ''Literature/TheoryOfCriticism'', by Creator/NorthropFrye
** ''Literature/TheThirdLevel'', by Creator/FritzLeiber
** ''Literature/ThingsOfTheWorld'', by Creator/RichardWilbur, for winning the Pulitzer Prize in {{Poetry}}
** ''Literature/ThoseIdiotsFromEarth'', by Creator/RichardWilson
** ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'', starring Creator/HenryFonda
** Creator/AEVanVogt's books, ''Literature/EmpireOfTheAtom'' and ''Literature/TheMindCage''.
** ''Magazine/VentureScienceFiction'', edited by Creator/RobertPMills, began publication.
** ''Series/WagonTrain''
** ''Literature/TheWapshotChronicle'', by Creator/JohnCheever
** ''Literature/{{Wasp}}'', by Creator/EricFrankRussell
** ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', and its songs "Tonight" and "Maria".
** ''Literature/TheWindsOfTime'', by Creator/ChadOliver
** ''Film/WitnessForTheProsecution'', directed by Creator/BillyWilder
** ''Film/XTheUnknown''
* SocietyMarchesOn: Creator/HBeamPiper's "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}": Written on the 1950s and set in the 1990s, where a multinational mission to Mars has a gender-equal crew and a female protagonist who makes an important discovery. All these people have a cocktail hour after work finishes for the day.
* TitleDrop: Creator/KateWilhelm's "Literature/TheMileLongSpaceship": When Allan falls asleep, he travels ([[{{telepathy}} telepathically]]) to a starship that strives to explore all of known space (including other galaxies) to discover other forms of life. Of course, he thinks it's a dream, while the aliens are aware of his PsychicPowers; "the [[MileLongShip mile-long spaceship]] in his dream".
* ToolsOfSapience: Creator/ABertramChandler's "Literature/TheCage": Survivors from a crashed starship (on a planet where clothes don't survive due to some aggressive fungus) are captured by aliens and put in a zoo. Attempts to convince the aliens they are sentient by making baskets or [[FirstContactMath demonstrating mathematics]] fail. But when they build a cage and put an [[CallASmeerpARabbit alien mouse]] into it... well, only sentient beings are bastards enough for that.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "{{Literature/Strikebreaker}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}", by Creator/HBeamPiper
* "Literature/TheMileLongSpaceship", by Creator/KateWilhelm
* "Literature/CallMeJoe", by Creator/PoulAnderson
* "Literature/YouKnowWillie", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell
* "Literature/HuntingMachine", by Creator/CarolEmshwiller
* "Literature/WorldOfAThousandColors", by Creator/RobertSilverberg
* "Literature/LetsBeFrank", by Creator/BrianWAldiss
* "Literature/TheCage", by Creator/ABertramChandler
* "Literature/TheEducationOfTigressMcCardle", by Creator/CMKornbluth
* "Literature/TheTunesmith", by Creator/LloydBiggleJr.
* "Literature/ALointOfPaw", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/GamePreserve", by Creator/RogPhillips
* "{{Literature/Soldier}}", by Creator/HarlanEllison
* "Literature/TheLastManLeftInTheBar", by Creator/CMKornbluth
[[/index]]
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!!''Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 19 (1957)'' provides examples of:
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Creator/HBeamPiper's "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}": A female archaeologist faces the skepticism of her colleagues when she tries to translate the long dead language of Martian, despite the fact that there could be no possible 'Rosetta Stone' ([[CommonTongue a message with a known language paired with the same message in the unknown language]]). She finds it anyway when they come across the Periodic Table of Elements in a Martian university.
* ArtificialHuman: Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/CallMeJoe": The titular character is the pseudojovian lifeform atrificially constructed by humans to live on the surface of {{UsefulNotes/Jupiter}} and act as a [[TelepathicSpacemen puppet controlled by a human on Ganymede]]. Joe specifically is controlled by Edward Anglesey, [[NotDisabledInVR a cripple]]. They created dozens of others, as well, for teams of esmen to control and conduct experiments on Jupiter's surface.
* {{Biography}}: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the fifteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.
* CommonTongue: Creator/HBeamPiper's "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}": Science turns out to be something of a universal language. Archaeologists studying Martian ruins first begin to make progress on translating their language from their scientific publications, with a periodic table being equivalent to the Rosetta Stone.
* FirstContactMath: Creator/HBeamPiper's "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}": This {{novellette}} uses the Periodic Table as [[CommonTongue a universal key]]. It helps that the Martian language tends to make new words by combining existing ones, so that (for example) the word for "metal" is part of the names of various metallic elements.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Creator/KateWilhelm's "Literature/TheMileLongSpaceship": The story [[SwitchingPOV switches]] between Allen, recovering in a hospital room on Earth, and the aliens aboard the titular starship in intergalactic space. The aliens are seeking out other lifeforms, and Earth's ability to utilize [[AtomPunk atomics]] and [[CasualInterplanetaryTravel travel between the planets in the solar system]] make humanity/Earth rate as an excellent find. However, it is difficult to locate humanity's solar system from the knowledge of the average person, so they "encourage" him to study and go back to school.
* KarmicTransformation: Creator/TheodoreRCogswell's "Literature/YouKnowWillie": Willie [=McCracken=], a [[TheKlan klansman]] who shot an African-American to death, is transformed by [[EthnicMagician Aunt Hattie, a very old and very black witch]], into the body of the dead man. The people who had been his fellow klansmen hunt him down and kill him (again).
* TheKlan: Creator/TheodoreRCogswell's "Literature/YouKnowWillie": Willie [=McCracken=] is a Thrice High Warlock of the local chapter of The Knights of the Flaming Sword. In other words, a klansman. He and his fellow klansmen kill the same African-American twice (the second time was Willie after a KarmicTransformation).
* MileLongShip: Creator/KateWilhelm's "Literature/TheMileLongSpaceship": Although [[ImpliedTrope implied]] by the title, only [[TitleDrop one line in the story]] indicates the size of the titular ship; "the mile-long spaceship in his dream".
* NotDisabledInVR: Creator/PoulAnderson's "Literature/CallMeJoe": "Joe" is the character played by Edward Anglesey, on {{UsefulNotes/Jupiter}}. Joe is a [[ArtificialHuman pseudojovian manufactured]] to live on the surface of Jupiter. Since Anglesey was paralyzed as a young man, he operates an [[PsychicLink esprojector that conveys his thoughts]] along a [[{{Technobabble}} psibeam]] to fully immerse himself in the pseudojovian's mind. He eventually leaves his human body and lives entirely in his pseudojovian body.
* OneWordTitle:
** "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}", by Creator/HBeamPiper
** "{{Literature/Soldier}}", by Creator/HarlanEllison
* RobotDog: Creator/CarolEmshwiller's "Literature/HuntingMachine": The titular hunting machine is referred to as a dog by its human owners. The third-person narration occasionally shows what passes for thought by the machine; heartbeat normal, respiration normal. It's designed to be grey-green to camouflage itself in temperate forest environments and was built with six legs.
* ShoutOut: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1957:
** ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth''
** ''Film/The27thDay''
** ''Film/TheAbominableSnowmanOfTheHimalayas''
** ''Film/TheAmazingColossalMan''
** ''Series/AmericanBandstand''
** ''Film/AndGodCreatedWoman'', starring Creator/BrigitteBardot and directed by Creator/RogerVadim.
** Creator/IsaacAsimov's books, ''Literature/TheNakedSun'' and ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough''
** ''Magazine/AstoundingScienceFiction'' earned the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best American magazine.
** ''Film/AttackOfTheCrabMonsters''
** ''Film/BeginningOfTheEnd''
** ''Literature/BigPlanet'', by Creator/JackVance
** ''Film/TheBlackScorpion''
** Music/PatBoone's song, "Love Letters in the Sand".
** ''Film/TheBridgeOverTheRiverKwai''
** Creator/MelBrooks is referenced.
** ''Literature/ByLovePossessed'', by Creator/JamesGouldCozzens
** Creator/MarcChagall painted his self-portrait, entitled "Self-Portrait".
** Creator/ArthurCClarke's books, ''Literature/TheDeepRange'' and ''Literature/TalesFromTheWhiteHart''.
** ''Literature/ColonialSurvey'', by Creator/MurrayLeinster
** ''Literature/{{Compulsion}}'', by Creator/MeyerLevin
** ''Literature/TheCosmicPuppets'', by Creator/PhilipKDick
** ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein''
** ''Literature/CycleOfFire'', by Creator/HalClement
** ''Film/TheCyclops''
** ''Film/TheDeadlyMantis''
** ''Literature/DoomsdayMorning'', by Creator/CLMoore
** ''Literature/EarthmansBurdern'', by Creator/PoulAnderson and Creator/GordonRDickson
** ''Film/EnemyFromSpace''
** ''Film/TheGiantClaw''
** ''Literature/GimpelTheFool'', by Creator/IsaacBashevisSinger
** ''Literature/TheGreenOdyssey'', by Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer
** ''Series/HaveGunWillTravel''
** ''Literature/TheHungerAndOtherStories'', by Creator/CharlesBeaumont
** ''Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingMan''
** ''Film/IWasATeenageFrankenstein''
** ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf''
** ''Literature/KidsSayTheDarndestThings!'', by Creator/ArtLinkLetter
** ''Film/{{Kronos}}''
** ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver''
** ''Series/{{Maverick}}''
** ''Literature/MasterOfLifeAndDeath'', by Creator/RobertSilverberg
** ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos'', by Creator/JohnWyndham
** ''Film/TheMonolithMonsters''
** ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'', and its song "Seventy-Six Trombones".
** ''Magazine/NewWorlds'' earned the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best British magazine.
** ''Literature/OccamsRazor'', by Creator/DavidDuncan
** ''Literature/OnTheBeach'', by Creator/NevilShute
** ''Film/PathsOfGlory'', directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick
** ''Series/PerryMason''
** ''Literature/PilgramageToEarth'', by Creator/RobertSheckley
** Creator/FrederikPohl's ''Literature/SlaveShip'' and ''Literature/TheCaseAgaisntTomorrow''
** Music/ElvisPresley's songs, "Music/AllShookUp" and "Music/JailhouseRock".
** ''Film/ThePrinceAndTheShowgirl'', starring Creator/MarilynMonroe
** ''Film/{{Rodan}}''
** ''Literature/RogueInSpace'', by Creator/FredricBrown
** ''Magazine/SaturnTheMagazineOfScienceFiction'', edited by Creator/DonaldAWollheim, began publication.
** ''Fanfic/ScienceFictionTimes'' earned the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for best fan magazine.
** ''Literature/TheShoresOfSpace'', by Creator/RichardMatheson
** ''Literature/TheShoudedPlanet'', by Creator/RobertRandall (a PenName for Creator/RandallGarrett and Creator/RobertSilverberg).
** ''Literature/StarBorn'', by Creator/AndreNorton
** ''Magazine/SpaceScienceFictionMagazine'', edited by Creator/LyleKenyonEngel, began publishing, but didn't successfully complete the year.
** ''Literature/TheydRatherBeRight'', by Creator/MarkClifton and Creator/FrankRiley
** ''Literature/TheoryOfCriticism'', by Creator/NorthropFrye
** ''Literature/TheThirdLevel'', by Creator/FritzLeiber
** ''Literature/ThingsOfTheWorld'', by Creator/RichardWilbur, for winning the Pulitzer Prize in {{Poetry}}
** ''Literature/ThoseIdiotsFromEarth'', by Creator/RichardWilson
** ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'', starring Creator/HenryFonda
** Creator/AEVanVogt's books, ''Literature/EmpireOfTheAtom'' and ''Literature/TheMindCage''.
** ''Magazine/VentureScienceFiction'', edited by Creator/RobertPMills, began publication.
** ''Series/WagonTrain''
** ''Literature/TheWapshotChronicle'', by Creator/JohnCheever
** ''Literature/{{Wasp}}'', by Creator/EricFrankRussell
** ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', and its songs "Tonight" and "Maria".
** ''Literature/TheWindsOfTime'', by Creator/ChadOliver
** ''Film/WitnessForTheProsecution'', directed by Creator/BillyWilder
** ''Film/XTheUnknown''
* SocietyMarchesOn: Creator/HBeamPiper's "{{Literature/Omnilingual}}": Written on the 1950s and set in the 1990s, where a multinational mission to Mars has a gender-equal crew and a female protagonist who makes an important discovery. All these people have a cocktail hour after work finishes for the day.
* TitleDrop: Creator/KateWilhelm's "Literature/TheMileLongSpaceship": When Allan falls asleep, he travels ([[{{telepathy}} telepathically]]) to a starship that strives to explore all of known space (including other galaxies) to discover other forms of life. Of course, he thinks it's a dream, while the aliens are aware of his PsychicPowers; "the [[MileLongShip mile-long spaceship]] in his dream".
* ToolsOfSapience: Creator/ABertramChandler's "Literature/TheCage": Survivors from a crashed starship (on a planet where clothes don't survive due to some aggressive fungus) are captured by aliens and put in a zoo. Attempts to convince the aliens they are sentient by making baskets or [[FirstContactMath demonstrating mathematics]] fail. But when they build a cage and put an [[CallASmeerpARabbit alien mouse]] into it... well, only sentient beings are bastards enough for that.
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