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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Stories About Aliens Posing as Humans
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:39:32 -0700
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:34:05 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 3/31/2025 2:28 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Five SF Stories About Aliens Posing as Humans
>>=20
>> Aliens living among us... and vice versa.
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>> https://reactormag.com/five-sf-stories-about-aliens-posing-as-humans/
>
>Zero for five here.
>
>"Mutineer's Moon" by David Weber fits this theme perfectly.
>
>50,000 years ago, the 250,000 mutineers and crew from the "Dahak" landed=
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>on Earth.  Over the centuries they killed off or assimilated the=20
>Neanderthals.

I once read a short story (?) where what we call "humans" were in fact
.... Martians. But I don't think the natives they displaced were
Neandertals.

Been a long time, though, so my memory may not be all that accurate.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"