Harrison by Two Tales & Eight Tomorrows

Author:Two Tales & Eight Tomorrows [Tales, Two & Tomorrows, Eight]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Gulyas told him, then looked down at the paper in his hands. He smiled at the alien in the screen before him, but there was something terribly sad about this smile. ‘We came originally from a planet named Earth. That is where your people came from too. We are brothers, Liem’.

‘What madness is this?’ Hautamaki shouted at him, his face swollen and angry. ‘Liem is humanoid, not human! It cannot breathe our air!’

‘He cannot breath our air, or perhaps she’, Gulyas answered quietly. ‘We do not use gene manipulation, but we know that it is possible. I’m sure we will eventually discover just how Liem’s people were altered to live under the physical conditions they do now. It might have been natural selection and normal mutation, but it seems too drastic a change to be explained that way. But that is not important. This is’. He held up the sheets of notes and photographs. ‘You can see for yourself. This is the DNA chain from the nucleus of one of my own cells. This is Liem’s. They are identical. His people are as human as we are’.

‘They can’t be!’ Tjond shook her head in bewilderment. ‘Just look at him, he is so different, and their alphabet—what about that? I cannot be wrong about that’.

‘There is one possibility you did not allow for, a totally independent alphabet. You yourself told me that there is not the slightest similarity between the Chinese ideographs and Western letters. If Liem’s people suffered a cultural disaster that forced them to completely reinvent writing you would have your alien alphabet. As to the way they look—just consider the thousands of centuries that have passed since mankind left Earth and you will see that his physical differences are minor. Some are natural and some may have been artificially achieved, but germ plasm cannot lie. We are all the sons of man’.

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