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  • Giant sheep which, through a virus, produce an immortality drug; underpeople, which are humans mixed with animal dna though before the notion of dna is around; the Garden of Death…

    Dante’s Inferno - Updated Trailer maryrobinette 2006

  • Like Cordwainer Smith's underpeople, Baldry's genics are in search of freedom and equality - but not just of power, also of faith and acceptance.

    A Saturday Morning "Procrastination Time" Review: The Reliquary Ring codepope 2003

  • He nodded gravely and addressed sonorous words of consolation and sorrow, words which brought a murmur of approval from humans and underpeople alike.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • As she went home from the funeral, he intruded upon the circle of her grimfaced friends, underpeople who were trying to shield her from the condolences of ifi-mannered but well-meaning sports enthusiasts.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • With all the depth which my poor underpeople can never get.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • If the E'telekeli was half as good as he seemed, the underpeople had a list of checkpoints and escape routes which would make it easier to hide from the capricious sentence of painless death which human authorities meted out.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • But the story became known a few generations later, when the Lord Jestocost had won acclaim for being the champion of the under-people and when the authorities, still unaware of E'telekeli, accepted the elected representatives of the underpeople as negotiators for better terms of life; and C'mell had died long since.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • He had planned to help the underpeople, and he had met powers of which organized mankind had no conception or perception.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • The underpeople were always destroyed and the real people brainwashed.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • She relaxed and talked about his hopes for the underpeople.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

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