GENUS HOMO Novel . TYPED MANUSCRIPT TMs . 1 , 206 leaves, carbon copy

by L. Sprague De Camp, P. Schuyler Miller

$450 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

Complete, but one leaf is bound upside down and leaves 39-71 are bound out of sequence. De Camp's copy, given to John D. Clark, a pioneer in the development of liquid rocket propellants and an early SF fan. Genus Homo was first published in SUPER SCIENCE STORIES in 1941 and published in book form in 1950 by Fantasy Press. Humans awake in the far future on Earth where mankind is extinct. A combination of allegory, satire and clever extrapolation that descends into space opera ... At its best,

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