No Connection

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"No Connection"
Author	Isaac Asimov
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction short story
Published in	Astounding Science Fiction
Publication type	Periodical
Publisher	Street & Smith
Media type	Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback)
Publication date	June 1948

"No Connection" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1948 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov.

Plot summary

In the Earth of the far distant future, humans have died out and have been replaced, at least in the Americas, by a race descended from bears. Known to themselves as Gurrow sapiens, they live peaceably in communal groupings, trading with each other and sharing communal property, monetary units and duties. Their science has advanced almost to that of pre-atomic age humans. Little is known of other lands on the planet.

Raph, a Gurrow archaeologist, learns of the arrival on the continent's eastern seaboard of an unknown race, apparently descended from chimpanzees, who resemble 'Primate Primeval', the extinct race whose existence he has been trying to prove. Their science is more advanced and they are more war-like.

It is suspected that the arrivals may try to invade and colonise the lands occupied by Gurrows.

References

Asimov, Isaac, "No Connection" in The Early Asimov ISBN 0-385-03979-4.

External links

No Connection title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

The Early Asimov by Isaac Asimov

"The Callistan Menace"
"Ring Around the Sun"
"The Magnificent Possession"
"Trends"
"The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use"
"Black Friar of the Flame"
"Half-Breed"
"The Secret Sense"
"Homo Sol"
"Half-Breeds on Venus"
"The Imaginary"
"Heredity"
"History"
"Christmas on Ganymede"
"The Little Man on the Subway"
"The Hazing"
"Super-Neutron"
"Not Final!"
"Legal Rites"
"Time Pussy"
"Author! Author!"
"Death Sentence"
"Blind Alley"
"No Connection"
"The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline"
"The Red Queen's Race"
"Mother Earth"

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