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William Levinson wrote: > The science fiction author Cordwainer Smith actually wrote stories > about the development of : "underpeople"- hybrids of humans with > cattle, dogs, cats, snakes, and so on- in the 1960s before anyone > had heard of genetic engineering. I see my feeble attempt at humor was ill-timed. If genetics were to make it possible, it would be a crime to create such beings, who would only suffer as a result. Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ age 60/dx 1990 Smith treated the ethical isssue of the status of creatures who were technically nonhuman but who had human intelligence. His future history stories were following a trend to where they would be recognized as people. -Bill Levinson (father 78/4)