Editor(s): Joseph D. Olander and Marting Harry Greenberg
Publisher: Franklin Watts (USA)
ISBN: 0-531-05602-3
Publication Date: 1977
Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction 1977
(Written As By Bertram Chandler)
Short Story
How does one define a "rational" - or intelligent - being? This story - about people who are captured by a superior alien species and must prove their rationality in order to free themselves - is a brilliant commentary on one way of defining a species as rational. For the superior aliens conclude that "only rational beings in cages."