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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: YASID: Hostile planet quick evolution
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 06:07:16 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-12, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

> Here's a YASID that came up on another feed today, with some ruminations
> about AI hallucinations as well:
>
> 	https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/do-androids-dream-of-fake-books
>
> 	I asked, "Can you identify a sci-fi short story about a
> 	group of humans stranded in their reinforced habitat on a
> 	world dominated by hostile animals trying to genetically
> 	change themselves generation by generation to be able to
> 	survive among the hostile fauna on the planet?" My description
> 	of the plot continued, "When the last generation is released
> 	they do wipe out the animals outside, but immediately start
> 	digging in to attack their parent generation.

Perplexity suggests "Between the Dark and the Daylight" (1958) by
Algis Budrys, based on this:
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/202251/short-story-about-humans-on-a-hostile-planet-genetically-engineering-their-offs

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de