Short story about a child who is a miniature, living Earth Announcing the arrival of Valued...
License to disallow distribution in closed source software, but allow exceptions made by owner?
The test team as an enemy of development? And how can this be avoided?
Can two people see the same photon?
Tips to organize LaTeX presentations for a semester
How to change the tick of the color bar legend to black
How do living politicians protect their readily obtainable signatures from misuse?
My mentor says to set image to Fine instead of RAW — how is this different from JPG?
What is the difference between a "ranged attack" and a "ranged weapon attack"?
Should a wizard buy fine inks every time he want to copy spells into his spellbook?
Why is it faster to reheat something than it is to cook it?
Why weren't discrete x86 CPUs ever used in game hardware?
Google .dev domain strangely redirects to https
How to ternary Plot3D a function
What does it mean that physics no longer uses mechanical models to describe phenomena?
Would color changing eyes affect vision?
Why complex landing gears are used instead of simple,reliability and light weight muscle wire or shape memory alloys?
Why do early math courses focus on the cross sections of a cone and not on other 3D objects?
what is the log of the PDF for a Normal Distribution?
"klopfte jemand" or "jemand klopfte"?
Nose gear failure in single prop aircraft: belly landing or nose-gear up landing?
Why is the change of basis formula counter-intuitive? [See details]
What are the main differences between Stargate SG-1 cuts?
Is there public access to the Meteor Crater in Arizona?
If Windows 7 doesn't support WSL, then what is "Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications"?
Short story about a child who is a miniature, living Earth
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30pm US/Eastern)
Favorite questions and answers from first quarter of 2019
Latest Blog Post: Avengers: Endgame PredictionsShort story about underground livingSF short story about sleepers living other peoples livesShort story where a box contains a miniature version of the EarthShort story about robots and a statue of a childShort s.f. Story, can't remember title, satirical riff on Teenagers Who Saved the Earth (all grown up now)Story about a designer babyLiving world ship short storyYA short story about a child who is menaced by squishy heartsHumorous short story about alien manufacturing ship accidentally dumping defective products on earthShort story about scientist aliens destroying Earth
.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ margin-bottom:0;
}
I saw this short story in an anthology years ago. At least 20 years old, probably more.
This was a humorous short story about a child of human parents who was born as a tiny earth, complete with landform and weather, which then rapidly evolved tiny dinosaurs and finally primates, to the fascination of the baby's brother and parents. There were some amusing swipes at the government's attempts to take the baby away from the parents, and other social & political responses to this bizarre event. Baby had a post-hippie type of name, perhaps Zenobia?
story-identification short-stories humor
edited 11 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,6781941
asked 11 hours ago
RoscoRosco
232
New contributor
Rosco is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
add a comment |
I saw this short story in an anthology years ago. At least 20 years old, probably more.
This was a humorous short story about a child of human parents who was born as a tiny earth, complete with landform and weather, which then rapidly evolved tiny dinosaurs and finally primates, to the fascination of the baby's brother and parents. There were some amusing swipes at the government's attempts to take the baby away from the parents, and other social & political responses to this bizarre event. Baby had a post-hippie type of name, perhaps Zenobia?
story-identification short-stories humor
edited 11 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,6781941
asked 11 hours ago
RoscoRosco
232
New contributor
Rosco is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
1
Hello and welcome to StackExchange! To improve this question, this great guide has a bunch of tips.
– Stormblessed
11 hours ago
1
Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
– M. A. Golding
8 hours ago
1
Gosh, I read that one recently. They let the child "float away" at the end. I'll look for it.
– Emsley Wyatt
8 hours ago
add a comment |
I saw this short story in an anthology years ago. At least 20 years old, probably more.
This was a humorous short story about a child of human parents who was born as a tiny earth, complete with landform and weather, which then rapidly evolved tiny dinosaurs and finally primates, to the fascination of the baby's brother and parents. There were some amusing swipes at the government's attempts to take the baby away from the parents, and other social & political responses to this bizarre event. Baby had a post-hippie type of name, perhaps Zenobia?
story-identification short-stories humor
edited 11 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,6781941
asked 11 hours ago
RoscoRosco
232
New contributor
Rosco is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
I saw this short story in an anthology years ago. At least 20 years old, probably more.
This was a humorous short story about a child of human parents who was born as a tiny earth, complete with landform and weather, which then rapidly evolved tiny dinosaurs and finally primates, to the fascination of the baby's brother and parents. There were some amusing swipes at the government's attempts to take the baby away from the parents, and other social & political responses to this bizarre event. Baby had a post-hippie type of name, perhaps Zenobia?
story-identification short-stories humor
story-identification short-stories humor
edited 11 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,6781941
asked 11 hours ago
RoscoRosco
232
New contributor
Rosco is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
edited 11 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,6781941
asked 11 hours ago
RoscoRosco
232
New contributor
Rosco is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
edited 11 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,6781941
edited 11 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,6781941
edited 11 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,6781941
2,6781941
asked 11 hours ago
RoscoRosco
232
New contributor
Rosco is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
asked 11 hours ago
RoscoRosco
232
asked 11 hours ago
RoscoRosco
232
232
New contributor
Rosco is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
New contributor
Rosco is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
Rosco is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
1
Hello and welcome to StackExchange! To improve this question, this great guide has a bunch of tips.
– Stormblessed
11 hours ago
1
Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
– M. A. Golding
8 hours ago
1
Gosh, I read that one recently. They let the child "float away" at the end. I'll look for it.
– Emsley Wyatt
8 hours ago
add a comment |
1
Hello and welcome to StackExchange! To improve this question, this great guide has a bunch of tips.
– Stormblessed
11 hours ago
1
Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
– M. A. Golding
8 hours ago
1
Gosh, I read that one recently. They let the child "float away" at the end. I'll look for it.
– Emsley Wyatt
8 hours ago
1
1
Hello and welcome to StackExchange! To improve this question, this great guide has a bunch of tips.
– Stormblessed
11 hours ago
Hello and welcome to StackExchange! To improve this question, this great guide has a bunch of tips.
– Stormblessed
11 hours ago
1
1
Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
– M. A. Golding
8 hours ago
Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
– M. A. Golding
8 hours ago
1
1
Gosh, I read that one recently. They let the child "float away" at the end. I'll look for it.
– Emsley Wyatt
8 hours ago
Gosh, I read that one recently. They let the child "float away" at the end. I'll look for it.
– Emsley Wyatt
8 hours ago
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
The story is "Daughter Earth" by James Morrow, the lead story in the Full Spectrum 3 anthology published in 1991.
A Pennsylvania farmer's wife gives birth to a baby biosphere named Zenobia.
edited 8 hours ago
Valorum
417k11330373258
answered 8 hours ago
Emsley WyattEmsley Wyatt
3,4691730
books.google.co.uk/…
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Rosco If this is the correct answer, please accept it by clicking the checkmark under the voting buttons.
– Stormblessed
6 hours ago
Thanks so much, Emsley. For MA Golding: yes, I'm aware of the name history. What I meant was that it had been a vanishingly rare name, apart from some tiny arty enclaves, until the hippie era broke all the rules, and suddenly there were weird names all around us.
– Rosco
1 hour ago
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "186"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
noCode: true, onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Rosco is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fscifi.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f209438%2fshort-story-about-a-child-who-is-a-miniature-living-earth%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
The story is "Daughter Earth" by James Morrow, the lead story in the Full Spectrum 3 anthology published in 1991.
A Pennsylvania farmer's wife gives birth to a baby biosphere named Zenobia.
edited 8 hours ago
Valorum
417k11330373258
answered 8 hours ago
Emsley WyattEmsley Wyatt
3,4691730
books.google.co.uk/…
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Rosco If this is the correct answer, please accept it by clicking the checkmark under the voting buttons.
– Stormblessed
6 hours ago
Thanks so much, Emsley. For MA Golding: yes, I'm aware of the name history. What I meant was that it had been a vanishingly rare name, apart from some tiny arty enclaves, until the hippie era broke all the rules, and suddenly there were weird names all around us.
– Rosco
1 hour ago
add a comment |
The story is "Daughter Earth" by James Morrow, the lead story in the Full Spectrum 3 anthology published in 1991.
A Pennsylvania farmer's wife gives birth to a baby biosphere named Zenobia.
edited 8 hours ago
Valorum
417k11330373258
answered 8 hours ago
Emsley WyattEmsley Wyatt
3,4691730
books.google.co.uk/…
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Rosco If this is the correct answer, please accept it by clicking the checkmark under the voting buttons.
– Stormblessed
6 hours ago
Thanks so much, Emsley. For MA Golding: yes, I'm aware of the name history. What I meant was that it had been a vanishingly rare name, apart from some tiny arty enclaves, until the hippie era broke all the rules, and suddenly there were weird names all around us.
– Rosco
1 hour ago
add a comment |
The story is "Daughter Earth" by James Morrow, the lead story in the Full Spectrum 3 anthology published in 1991.
A Pennsylvania farmer's wife gives birth to a baby biosphere named Zenobia.
edited 8 hours ago
Valorum
417k11330373258
answered 8 hours ago
Emsley WyattEmsley Wyatt
3,4691730
The story is "Daughter Earth" by James Morrow, the lead story in the Full Spectrum 3 anthology published in 1991.
A Pennsylvania farmer's wife gives birth to a baby biosphere named Zenobia.
edited 8 hours ago
Valorum
417k11330373258
answered 8 hours ago
Emsley WyattEmsley Wyatt
3,4691730
edited 8 hours ago
Valorum
417k11330373258
edited 8 hours ago
Valorum
417k11330373258
edited 8 hours ago
Valorum
417k11330373258
417k11330373258
answered 8 hours ago
Emsley WyattEmsley Wyatt
3,4691730
answered 8 hours ago
Emsley WyattEmsley Wyatt
3,4691730
answered 8 hours ago
Emsley WyattEmsley Wyatt
3,4691730
3,4691730
books.google.co.uk/…
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Rosco If this is the correct answer, please accept it by clicking the checkmark under the voting buttons.
– Stormblessed
6 hours ago
Thanks so much, Emsley. For MA Golding: yes, I'm aware of the name history. What I meant was that it had been a vanishingly rare name, apart from some tiny arty enclaves, until the hippie era broke all the rules, and suddenly there were weird names all around us.
– Rosco
1 hour ago
add a comment |
books.google.co.uk/…
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Rosco If this is the correct answer, please accept it by clicking the checkmark under the voting buttons.
– Stormblessed
6 hours ago
Thanks so much, Emsley. For MA Golding: yes, I'm aware of the name history. What I meant was that it had been a vanishingly rare name, apart from some tiny arty enclaves, until the hippie era broke all the rules, and suddenly there were weird names all around us.
– Rosco
1 hour ago
books.google.co.uk/…
– Valorum
8 hours ago
books.google.co.uk/…
– Valorum
8 hours ago
@Rosco If this is the correct answer, please accept it by clicking the checkmark under the voting buttons.
– Stormblessed
6 hours ago
@Rosco If this is the correct answer, please accept it by clicking the checkmark under the voting buttons.
– Stormblessed
6 hours ago
Thanks so much, Emsley. For MA Golding: yes, I'm aware of the name history. What I meant was that it had been a vanishingly rare name, apart from some tiny arty enclaves, until the hippie era broke all the rules, and suddenly there were weird names all around us.
– Rosco
1 hour ago
Thanks so much, Emsley. For MA Golding: yes, I'm aware of the name history. What I meant was that it had been a vanishingly rare name, apart from some tiny arty enclaves, until the hippie era broke all the rules, and suddenly there were weird names all around us.
– Rosco
1 hour ago
add a comment |
Rosco is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Rosco is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Rosco is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Rosco is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Thanks for contributing an answer to Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fscifi.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f209438%2fshort-story-about-a-child-who-is-a-miniature-living-earth%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
1
Hello and welcome to StackExchange! To improve this question, this great guide has a bunch of tips.
– Stormblessed
11 hours ago
1
Zenobi doesn't seem like a "post-hippie type of name" to me. The name has been used for a long time. There is the movie Zemobia (1939) where Zenobia is an elephant. The most famous Zenobia was Septimia Zenobia of Palmyra (c.240-c.274), Queen of Kings of the East and would be Roman Empress. And there were other Zenobias in history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_(disambiguation) So Zenobia seems like a very, very, pre-hippie, not post-hippie, type name to me.
– M. A. Golding
8 hours ago
1
Gosh, I read that one recently. They let the child "float away" at the end. I'll look for it.
– Emsley Wyatt
8 hours ago