YASID: cats, the secret masters of earth
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Fred Galvin wrote: It was a short story, in a magazine or maybe an anthology, probably from the fifties or sixties. Cats and dogs originated on the moon. They migrated to earth when their last big war (cats against dogs) left the moon uninhabitable. Cats won the war by inventing some kind of ray that made the dogs stupid, as they remain to this day, the effect being hereditary. Cats are in telepathic communication, forming a kind of group mind, and they spend most of their time solving deep problems of mathematics, philosophy, and cosmology, the only stuff that interests them nowadays. They have little interest in their human slaves, but occasionally they intervene in global affairs, preventing wars or fomenting them (I forget which) for their own selfish reasons. At the end of the story, the cats terminate the guy who found out about them. Can't place this one, but am instantly reminded of C'wainer Smith's wonderful "The Crimes and Glory of Commander Suzdal", with the immortal tagline "And then came cats!" [1] Cheers -- Pete Tillman, looking forward to the 'real' answer [1] for rpca'ers, these were **SPOILER** .. .. .. force-evolved cat-warriors, bred by Cmdr Suzdal to combat a savage race of (sort-of human) attack-queers. -- In "Tracer Shells," 2002, forty-six cats with bright-white fluron-tipped tails, leap over upturned chairs and tables (depicting social chaos) in response to rapid bursts of recorded machine-gun fire. In the darkened space the effect is startling, the message disturbing, and the method ethically challenging. --from WHY PAINT CATS? |
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Fred Galvin wrote: It was a short story, in a magazine or maybe an anthology, probably from the fifties or sixties. Cats and dogs originated on the moon. They migrated to earth when their last big war (cats against dogs) left the moon uninhabitable. Cats won the war by inventing some kind of ray that made the dogs stupid, as they remain to this day, the effect being hereditary. Cats are in telepathic communication, forming a kind of group mind, and they spend most of their time solving deep problems of mathematics, philosophy, and cosmology, the only stuff that interests them nowadays. They have little interest in their human slaves, but occasionally they intervene in global affairs, preventing wars or fomenting them (I forget which) for their own selfish reasons. At the end of the story, the cats terminate the guy who found out about them. Can't place this one, but am instantly reminded of C'wainer Smith's wonderful "The Crimes and Glory of Commander Suzdal", with the immortal tagline "And then came cats!" [1] Cheers -- Pete Tillman, looking forward to the 'real' answer [1] for rpca'ers, these were **SPOILER** .. .. .. force-evolved cat-warriors, bred by Cmdr Suzdal to combat a savage race of (sort-of human) attack-queers. -- In "Tracer Shells," 2002, forty-six cats with bright-white fluron-tipped tails, leap over upturned chairs and tables (depicting social chaos) in response to rapid bursts of recorded machine-gun fire. In the darkened space the effect is startling, the message disturbing, and the method ethically challenging. --from WHY PAINT CATS? |
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