Post #5 - March 9th, 2006, 10:55 pmPost #5 - March 9th, 2006, 10:55 pm
The rat squirrel. Back after 11 million years...and looking DELICIOUS!
"Discovered living in central Laos ..it's a species believed to have been extinct for 11 million years...Scientists haven't yet a bagged a breathing one, only the bodies of those recently caught by hunters or for sale at meat markets, where researchers with the New York-based conservation society first spotted the creature."
Post #7 - March 10th, 2006, 7:19 amPost #7 - March 10th, 2006, 7:19 am
Mike G wrote:The Ugly Chickens, by Howard Waldrop. Which won a Nebula Award despite not being, in any way that I can see, science fiction.
"Science fiction is what I point at when I say 'science fiction.'" -- Damon Knight
It has science. Ornithology is a science. It's fiction. Science and fiction. There you go.* More importantly, it's a wonderful story. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award.