The Sharing of Flesh

"The Sharing of Flesh"
Author	Poul Anderson
Genre(s)	Science fiction
Publisher	Galaxy Science Fiction
Publication date	1968

"The Sharing of Flesh" (also published as "The Dipteroid Phenomenon") is a science fiction novelette by Poul Anderson. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction (December 1968), it won a 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and was nominated for a 1969 Nebula Award.^[1] The story has appeared in the collections The Night Face & Other Stories (1979), The Dark Between the Stars (1981),^[1] Winners (1981), and The Long Night (1983).^[2]

Plot summary

After a galactic dark age, humanity sends an expedition to a primitive human planet, where all cultures practice cannibalism as a rite of manhood. When one of the expedition members is brutally killed, his wife embarks on a mission of vengeance.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Experience: Paul Anderson (Stories M-S)". Scifi.darkroastedblend.com. September 2006.
↑ Wagner, Thomas M. (1997). "SF Review: The Dark Between the Stars (1981)". SFReviews.net.

External links

The Sharing of Flesh title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Works by Poul Anderson

Hoka	Earthman's Burden Star Prince Charlie Hoka!

The Psychotechnic League	Star Ways The Snows of Ganymede Virgin Planet The Psychotechnic League Cold Victory Starship

Tomorrow's Children	Tomorrow's Children Chain of Logic

Technic History Polesotechnic League period of Nicholas van Rijn	War of the Wing-Men Trader to the Stars The Trouble Twisters Satan's World The Earth Book of Stormgate Mirkheim The People of the Wind

Technic History Terran Empire period of Dominic Flandry	Ensign Flandry A Circus of Hells The Rebel Worlds The Day of Their Return Agent of the Terran Empire Flandry of Terra A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows A Stone in Heaven The Game of Empire The Long Night Let the Spacemen Beware

Time Patrol	Time Patrol Brave to be a King The Year of the Ransom The Shield of Time

History of Rustum	Orbit Unlimited New America

Maurai	Maurai and Kith Orion Shall Rise

Harvest of Stars	Harvest of Stars The Stars Are Also Fire Harvest of Fire The Fleet of Stars

Other novels science-fiction	Flight to Forever Vault of the Ages Brain Wave Question and Answer No World of Their Own The Long Way Home Perish by the Sword War of Two Worlds The Enemy Stars The High Crusade Murder in Black Letter Twilight World After Doomsday The Makeshift Rocket Murder Bound Shield Three Worlds to Conquer The Corridors of Time The Star Fox The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin: A Folk Tale Adapted from the Danish of C. Molbeck World Without Stars Tau Zero The Byworlder The Dancer from Atlantis There Will Be Time Fire Time Inheritors of Earth The Winter of the World The Avatar The Demnon of Scattery The Devil's Game The Boat of a Million Years The Saturn Game The Longest Voyage War of the Gods Starfarers Genesis Mother of Kings For Love and Glory

Collections	Strangers from Earth Un-Man and Other Novellas Time and Stars The Horn of Time Beyond the Beyond Seven Conquest Tales of the Flying Mountains The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories The Worlds of Poul Anderson The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson Homeward and Beyond The Best of Poul Anderson Homebrew The Night Face & Other Stories The Dark Between the Stars Explorations Fantasy Winners Cold Victory The Gods Laughed Starship The Winter of the World / The Queen of Air and Darkness Conflict The Long Night Past Times The Unicorn Trade Dialogue With Darkness Space Folk Alight in the Void The Armies of Elfland Inconstant Star Kinship With the Stars All One Universe Going for Infinity

King of Ys (fantasy)	Roma Mater Gallicenae Dahut The Dog and the Wolf

Operation Otherworld (fantasy)	Operation Chaos Operation Luna

Other novels fantasy	Three Hearts and Three Lions The Broken Sword Hrolf Kraki's Saga A Midsummer Tempest The Merman's Children Conan the Rebel War of the Gods

The Last Viking (Historical)	The Golden Horn The Road of the Sea Horse The Sign of the Raven

Historical novels	The Golden Slave Rogue Sword Mother of Kings

Anthologies	Nebula Award Stories Four The Day the Sun Stood Still A World Named Cleopatra

Selected novellas/short stories	"Brake" "Call Me Joe" "Delenda Est" "The Entity" "Eutopia" "Goat Song" "High Treason" "Lodestar" "The Longest Voyage" "The Man Who Came Early" "Marius" "Memory" "Night Piece" "No Truce with Kings" "The Pirate" "The Queen of Air and Darkness" "The Saturn Game" "The Sensitive Man" "The Sharing of Flesh" "Un-Man"

Non-Fiction	Is There Life on Other Worlds?

Hugo Award for Best Novelette

Retro Hugos	"Rule 18" by Clifford D. Simak (1939) "First Contact" by Murray Leinster (1946) "The Little Black Bag" by Cyril M. Kornbluth (1951) "Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish (1954)

1955–1960	"The Darfsteller" by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1955) "Exploration Team" by Murray Leinster (1956) "The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber (1958) "The Big Front Yard" by Clifford D. Simak (1959)

1967–1980	"The Last Castle" by Jack Vance (1967) "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber (1968) "The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson (1969) "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson (1973) "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison (1974) "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" by Harlan Ellison (1975) "The Borderland of Sol" by Larry Niven (1976) "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov (1977) "Eyes of Amber" by Joan D. Vinge (1978) "Hunter's Moon" by Poul Anderson (1979) "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin (1980)

1981–1990	"The Cloak and the Staff" by Gordon R. Dickson (1981) "Unicorn Variation" by Roger Zelazny (1982) "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis (1983) "Blood Music" by Greg Bear (1984) "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler (1985) "Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison (1986) "Permafrost" by Roger Zelazny (1987) "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1988) "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger (1989) "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" by Robert Silverberg (1990)

1991–2000	"The Manamouki" by Mike Resnick (1991) "Gold" by Isaac Asimov (1992) "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan (1993) "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield (1994) "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold (1995) "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly (1996) "Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling (1997) "We Will Drink a Fish Together..." by Bill Johnson (1998) "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling (1999) "10¹⁶ to 1" by James Patrick Kelly (2000)

2001–present	"Millennium Babies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (2001) "Hell Is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang (2002) "Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick (2003) "Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick (2004) "The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link (2005) "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle (2006) "The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald (2007) "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang (2008) "Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear (2009) "The Island" by Peter Watts (2010) "The Emperor of Mars" by Allen Steele (2011) "Six Months, Three Days" by Charlie Jane Anders (2012) "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" by Pat Cadigan (2013)