Contains the article "The Winged Human in Dream, Myth and Literature" and the complete Science Fantasy short story SOMEDAY THERE WILL BE CENTAURS (We'll go out there, of course. And we'll colonize. We'll do whatever it takes. We'll adapt. Genetic engineering, if necessary. We'll have wings. Or gills. And Someday...)

"Ornithanthropus" was inspired by Roy Krenkel, Jr's ACE cover of Edgar Rice Burroughs' PIRATES OF VENUS. That image of the klangan -- the birdman -- carrying the sullen princess into the sky is a primal one -- it speaks a Truth only the great fantasists can tell. Winged Humans have flown alien skies in many literary works, mostly science fantasy, from those of Poul Anderson to A.E. van Vogt. In a few sentences, James Joyce breathed life into the myth: "His heart trembled...and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward...an ecstasy of flight made radiant his eyes and wild his breath and tremulous and wild and radiant his windswept limbs."

For as long as we strive to be Free, the Myth of Ornithanthropus, the Winged Human, lives!