Sanusian

Suppose this Sanusian were not any form of natural creature at all, but some sort of supermachine, capable of functioning like an organism?

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

Her first sight of the Sanusian world was from the front of a large building.

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

Or were They, as the books from Venus seemed to indicate, another type of creature, entirely different from the humans, and yet, because of the peculiar Sanusian conditions, superior to the humans?

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

By the time the four once more got together in the doctor's study, each had had a chance to consider the Sanusian situation pretty thoroughly.

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

The sun was well above the horizon; and not only the Sanusian but the people on the earth were vastly puzzled to note that it was the western horizon!

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

Sanusian mountains long enough to learn their geology.

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

And before Kinney severed his connection with the Sanusian, she had begun the task of mixing up a fresh combination of these ingredients in a new trough.

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

A little nearer, and the architect was looking, from the air, down upon the same scene which the doctor was then witnessing through the eyes of Rolla, the older of the two Sanusian women.

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

"You don't mean to say," demanded Smith, "that these Sanusian bees owe their position to the fact that they are, or were, such great workers?"

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

It seemed wise to get the notion into as many Sanusian heads as possible.

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908