Christopher Anvil
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Christopher Anvil (born 1922) is a pseudonym used by author Harry C. Crosby. He began publishing science fiction with the story "Cinderella, Inc." in the December 1952 issue of the science fiction magazine Imagination. By 1956, he had adopted his pseudonym and was being published in Astounding Magazine.
Anvil's repeated appearances in Astounding/Analog were due in part to his ability to write to one of Campbell's preferred plots: alien opponents with superior firepower losing out to the superior intelligence or indomitable will of humans.
While it's questionable if the humans actually win in this one, probably the typical Anvil short story is "Pandora's Planet," which appeared first in Astounding Magazine in September 1956. It has since been reprinted several times.
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(from different stories)
- "The natives showed considerable low cunning in using the brute force at their disposal."
- "Go squat in a thorny tree !"
