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To: Red Badger
"Jerry Was a Man" (1947) is a short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It is about an attempt by a genetically modified chimpanzee to achieve human rights. The main theme of the story is civil liberties, in this case extended towards a group of genetically enhanced chimpanzees to allow them equal rights under the law.

The story was originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1947, and is collected in the book Assignment in Eternity.

See, I still can remember things.
50 posted on 10/30/2025 11:09:18 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: higgmeister

Similar to “The Positronic Man” by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg.

A novel about a robot that gradually becomes human over a space of 200 years.

It was made into a 1999 movie called “The Bicentennial Man” starring Robin Williams and Sam Neill.............


51 posted on 10/30/2025 11:14:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: higgmeister

https://epdf.pub/heinlein-robert-a-jerry-was-a-manc1df4b41e79c63dbf7a011a090a3d82910887.html


52 posted on 10/30/2025 11:17:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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