The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday February 16th, 2023
Anthropoforming by Jan Sand
Way back when science fiction was young the idea of shifting humanity to another planet was explored. Many of the early writers in the field were scientists, engineers and technologists so they understood the problems. They are huge.
Humanity credits itself with major differences from other animals by its reaction to the environment. Other animals, it claims, merely adapt to the environment, but humans change it. Looked at from a slightly more generous viewpoint, this is more a matter of degree than an absolute. Evolution is a rather cruel master but it sees to it that its creations have various ways to manage. No doubt it favours physiological adaptations to make its creatures viable but genetic installations of survival behaviours also must be understood. This is not to demean the far greater ingenuities humans have developed to far outrange the behaviours of all other creatures. From hermit crabs, to honeybees and termites, to beavers and many creatures who construct underground dwellings, to the devious camouflage tricks of octopuses the seeds of human cleverness are widespread throughout many different life forms. But there is something perverse in all great successes. When these survival victories against the difficulties become too great, dangerous disasters arise. That’s the problem we are facing now.
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Family Confab #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“The performance was very good.
Alan had been lecturing the family, consisting of his mother and brother.
His lecture had been about where all the bodies are buried.
He had ranged over principalities and territories, far and wide.
Every body is buried somewhere, he had argued closely.”
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Ant-Biotics #09 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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