Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Stories About Aliens Posing as Humans

In article <932oujlf1mo7e2l2g1aq079fljrsea4nd9@4ax.com>,
 Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:34:05 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 3/31/2025 2:28 PM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five SF Stories About Aliens Posing as Humans
 
Aliens living among us... and vice versa.
 
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-stories-about-aliens-posing-as-humans/

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Zero for five here.
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"Mutineer's Moon" by David Weber fits this theme perfectly.
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50,000 years ago, the 250,000 mutineers and crew from the "Dahak" landed
on Earth.  Over the centuries they killed off or assimilated the
Neanderthals.

 
I once read a short story (?) where what we call "humans" were in fact
... Martians. But I don't think the natives they displaced were
Neandertals.
 
Been a long time, though, so my memory may not be all that accurate.

That sounds like a H. Beam Piper story ... checking ... "Genesis"
(<https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?61690>). Note that his entire
Paratime Police series was set in a timeline of a successful
colonization of Earth from Mars.

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