Re: "Earthman, Beware!" s.s. by Poul Anderson

[a425couple]

On 6/8/2017 7:30 PM, a425couple wrote:
> The Short Story "Earthman, Beware!" by Poul Anderson,
> 1951, is in my opinion, just so-so. It is one of 8 short
> stories from his book "Strangers from Earth".
>
> http://poulandersonappreciation.blogspot.com/2013/07/earthman-beware.html
>
> the above site has some comments on the story that might stir up interest,
> "Saturday, 27 July 2013
> Earthman, Beware!
>
> Poul Anderson's "Earthman, Beware!," --- collected in his Alight In The
> Void (New York, 1993), is a superman story though not a Superman story.
> It is not about Kal-El from Krypton but is about a superior humanoid
> extraterrestrial found in a grain field as a baby and adopted by "...an
> elderly local couple, childless and kindly." (p. 40)
>
> This story was published in 1951, just twelve years after the first
> installment of Superman. Did Anderson consciously mimic the origin of
> Clark Kent or did these circumstances just seem appropriate to him as
> they had to Jerry Siegel?
>
> Anderson's superman, Joel Weatherfield: ---
> at age six, patented, in his foster father's name, farm machinery
> improvements that enabled his parents to buy any books or equipment that
> he wanted instead of sending him to school;
> soon devised a wig to conceal his permanent baldness;
> conceals other bodily differences beneath clothes;
> entered Harvard at thirteen;
> graduated with every honor at fifteen;
> invented the ion-jet space drive, the controlled-disintegration ion
> process, the cure for the common cold, the crystalline-structure
> determination of geological age and a robot chef;
> won the Nobel prize in physics for his relativistic wave mechanics;
> pioneered a new branch of mathematical series theory;
> in his youth, wrote brilliantly on archaeology, economics, ecology and
> semantics;
> founded new schools in painting and poetry;
> has an immeasurable IQ;
> controls an errand-running cat by whistling;
> developed an X-ray technique for photographing different layers of
> tissue just to study himself;
> used a variation of his crystalline-structure method to determine that
> his deceased mother was at least five hundred years old;
> has a heart with more functions than its human counterpart;
> has a better organized brain, preventing insanity;
> has, in the brain, a "telepathy center," sensitive to neural currents
> in other organisms;
> has developed limited telepathy by comparing human reactions and words
> with detected emanations;
> can also emit emanations although no human being can detect them;
> quickly predicts any acquaintance's reactions and verbal responses;
> knows their feelings better than they do;
> has a cerebral center for voluntary control of pain, endocrine
> regulation etc, but has not learned to use it effectively;
> has not learned what some other centers are for;
> became a multimillionaire in five years;
> discovered a radiation unrelated to electromagnetism that will be the
> subject of a further post;
> thus, is homo superior in many ways that were beyond the imagination of
> Jerry Siegel - --- "
>
> He is not fitting in well,,,,,,!

[a425couple]

On 6/8/2017 7:30 PM, a425couple wrote:

(Just to get this story here, where I might find it later.)