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Homo superiors

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Homo superiors

  1. plural of Homo superior
    • 1947 April, Henry Kuttner, Catherine Lucille Moore, “Project”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 39, number 2:
      Your children’s children will see the day. They will be the dominant majority. I shall be conquered not by homo sapiens, but by homo superiors.
    • 2000 August, Walter Mosley, “Extreme Fan”, in Vibe, volume 8, number 6, page 84:
      He called mutants Homo Superiors to underscore the difference between mutants and the rest of mankind—puny Homo sapiens.
    • 2006, John R. Cook, “The Age of Aquarius”, in British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide, I.B.Tauris & Co, →ISBN, page 98:
      As a supercomputer constructed by leading 'Tomorrow Person' John (Nicholas Young), with the help of the Galactic Federation, TIM has the role of assisting the homo superiors in this fight from their secret base — appropriately called the 'lab' — in a disused tunnel of the London Underground.