Pantropy: The Complete Collection of Stories by James Blish
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Overview: Pantropy is a hypothetical process of space colonization in which rather than terraforming other planets or building space habitats suitable for human habitation, humans are modified (for example via genetic engineering) to be able to thrive in the existing environment. The term was coined by science fiction author James Blish, who wrote a series of short stories based on the idea
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sunken Universe, Super Science Stories, May 1942
In a little-known corner of this galaxy, the watery world of Hydrot hurtles endlessly around the red star, Tau Ceti. For many months its single small continent, has been snowbound, and the many pools and lakes which dot the continent have been locked in the grip of the ice. Now, however, the red sun swings ever closer to the zenith in its sky; the snow rushes in torrents toward the eternal ocean, and the ice recedes from the shores of the lakes and pools . . .
Surface Tension, Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1952
Only an aquatic animal could exist on that world and so Man became just that – nor did reduction in size cause a less of stature!
The Thing in the Attic, If, July 1954
Honath and his fellow arch-doubters did not believe in the Giants, and for this they were cast into Hell. And when survival depended upon unwavering faith in their beliefs, they saw that there were Giants, after all….
Watershed, If, May 1955
Discontent was brewing aboard the R.S.S. Indefeasible. And Captain Gorbel, a proud "basic" man, could cope with it… But Mother Earth turned the tables!
A Time to Survive, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1956
James Blish has explored in other stories the concept of pantropy, that science springing from the audacious question: Must we adapt the planets to make them habitable to man . . . or can we genetically adapt man to the planets? Here he goes back to relate the origin and first success of the pantropic method; and in characteristic Blish fashion, he does so in a short novel which is one part stimulating ‘scientific thinking’, one part sympathetic study of character (as a man literally born to be a spy learns to feel emotions that war with his training); and one part sheer rattling adventure, winding up with a doozer of a space battle.
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