Strange Eden

"Strange Eden" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Imagination magazine, December 1954.

"Strange Eden" was originally published in the December 1954 issue of Imagination

Plot

It tells of a planetary survey team that encounters an immortal woman on an uninhabited planet. The woman reveals that her race has visited Earth over the entire course of human history and were the inspiration for ancient gods and goddesses. The woman, however, causes humans to 'fast-evolve' into large lion-like creatures.

gollark: Why shouldn't it be?
gollark: I think that would work, if you were insane, which you would be.
gollark: SMFW the type system is more expressive than the language.
gollark: The templates are TC IIRC.
gollark: It doesn't explicitly specify the size of any types IIRC, so it's not memory-limited. Well, the spec isn't, obviously no implementation is tC.
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